Upgrade "may not respond to" warning to error

Eljay Love-Jensen eljay@adobe.com
Mon Aug 30 16:01:00 GMT 2004


Hi Scott,

 >What's the flag for this message?

I'm not sure.  (I haven't familiarized myself with Objective-C.  Which is 
ironic, since I'm an OS X person.)

Refer to ...
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.1/gcc/Objective-C-Dialect-Options.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.1/gcc/Warning-Options.html

 >Is it possible to do something like -Werror on just some warnings?

No.  It's possible to doing something similar, using one of three different 
strategies:

1) edit the GCC source code and make the identified warnings 
errors.  Rebuild your custom GCC.

2) post-process the output (using sed, for instance) and "upgrade" warnings 
to errors.  Not quite the same thing, doesn't abort the compile, but may be 
"good enough".  You can use that in conjunction with grep to detect for the 
upgraded warnings, and abort a make file by returning a failing error code.

3) have your build process perform two passes.  The first pass enables all 
the warnings you want to see, the second pass enable only the warnings you 
want to be elevated to errors and turn on the -Werror flag.

Those are just a few ideas off the top of my head.

HTH,
--Eljay



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