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Re: a warning to implement
Tim Hollebeek <tim@hollebeek.com> writes:
| On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:37:52PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Tim Hollebeek <tim@hollebeek.com> writes:
| >
| > | > Please, note that I'm not saying that GCC should not have an option to
| > | > trigger the proposed warning. I'm saying that that shouldn't be on by
| > | > default in -Wall.
| > |
| > | Then noone will have it on (because it is such a rare case they won't
| > | realize they might need it).
| >
| > That argument is flawed: there are plenty of warning not included in
| > -Wall and yet actually used by people.
|
| In almost all cases, those are warnings that are useful in particular
| (not uncommon) situations, but have drawbacks that prevent them from
| being useful in the general case.
Like -Wnested-externs or missing-prototypes?
-- Gaby