RFC: should we use -Werror? (& sample patch to do it)

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 4 23:32:00 GMT 2001


Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:-

> I also added a mechanism to disable -Werror on a per-triplet basis or
> per autoconf test basis.  E.g. if the HOST_PTR_PRINTF autoconf test
> fails, you are guaranteed to get some format specifier warnings.  So I
> automatically disabled -Werror in that case.  Also if a platform is
> hopelessly broken, you can disable -Werror in config.gcc for that
> triplet.

I would imagine that it would be better to do it the other way; I think
it is really only realistic to enable it on a per-triplet basis and
default to off.

Neil.



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