Rename -W to -Wextra ?

Fergus Henderson fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Jun 3 23:41:00 GMT 2002


On 03-Jun-2002, Kaveh R. Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Adding -Wextra as an alias for -W is fine, but IMHO removing -W is
> not.  Why invalidate people's Makefiles and configure scripts that
> have worked for a decade?  For the same reason, we should not issue a
> "deprecated" warning when using -W.

I agree.

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