[Bug fortran/40011] Problems with -fwhole-file

[jv244 at cam dot ac dot uk]

------- Comment #45 from jv244 at cam dot ac dot uk  2009-08-26 09:23 -------
Paul, are there issues other than the ones reported in comment #44 that prevent
making -fwhole-file the default? 
Richard, do you believe PR38913 (Fortran does not set TYPE_CANONICAL properly)
can be fixed for 4.5? 

I believe whole-file should be made default before the end of stage 1, if any
serious problem emerges that can not be fixed, one can always do a step back.

For example, LTO (-flto) enables -fwhole-file by default, and presumably will
be merged in trunk one of these days.

Furthermore, I believe that it would be a good idea to enable -fwhole-file by
default for Fortan anyway, so that the additional, useful, warning messages are
generated. This will furthermore guarantee that the number of warnings
generated by the FE doesn't depend on optimization flags such as -flto. A bonus
is of course that whole-file gets more testing, so that it becomes reliable.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40011