Criteria for a warning to be in -Wall? (was: Re: a warning to implement)
Joe Buck
jbuck@synopsys.COM
Wed Feb 6 12:13:00 GMT 2002
Tim writes:
> Let's discuss what the conditions should be for a warning to be in
> -Wall, and then document it. If that ends up meaning -Wnested-externs
> should be added, so be it.
Many projects and development teams, both free and non-free, require
clean compiles with -Wall. What this means is that if we put an option
in -Wall, we are in a sense setting policy, the policy being that we
are asserting rather strongly that "you shouldn't do that".
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