Rename -W to -Wextra ?
Joe Buck
Joe.Buck@synopsys.com
Mon Jun 3 22:54:00 GMT 2002
> > Well, I think it mostly depends on whether you see any utility in
> > recovering -W to mean what -Wall currently means. If that's the long
> > term goal, -W needs to be deprecated and then removed entirely for a
> > release or two, IMO, before it changes functionality.
Kaveh writes:
> I think changing -W to mean something different is an even worse idea
> than eliminating it. :-(
I don't think that eliminating -W is an option at all. We're stuck with
it. We could add -Wextra as a synonym, but that's about it. It's too
commonly used and has been in gcc for over a decade.
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