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Re: [RFC] -Weverything
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 18:46, Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Thomas Koenig wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What would people think about a -Weverything option which turns on
> > every warning there is?
> >
> > I think that could be quite useful in some circumstances, especially
> > to find potential bugs with warnings that people, for some reason
> > or other, found too noisy for -Wextra.
> >
> > The name could be something else, of course. In the best GNU tradition,
> > -Wkitchen-sink could be another option :-)
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31573 and duplicates already
> list quite a few arguments. Basically, it could be useful for debugging
> gcc or to discover warnings, but gcc devs fear that users will actually
> use it for real.
Every LLVM dev I've spoken to thinks their -Weverything was a mistake
and hates it. It was meant to be for option discovery by automated
tools, but users started using it.