Rename -W to -Wextra ?

Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci fwyzard@inwind.it
Tue Jun 4 11:41:00 GMT 2002


At 17:35 04/06/2002 +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> > - for --help output and in the manual, only describe -Wextra
>
>You need to keep docs for -W in the manual so that someone seeing a
>reference to -W (e.g. in a Makefile) can look it up and see what that
>option does.


OK, but you can deprecate it in the manual, or list it for backward 
compatibility only.

.fw.




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