New warning options for 4.0?

Joe Buck Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM
Tue Nov 2 17:13:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:57:32PM +0100, Sam Lauber wrote:

> I was thinking that an option -Wgcs could be added that makes GCC
> display warnings about code that does not conform to the GNU coding
> standards and a -Wgcs-gcc that displays warnings about code that does
> not comply to the GCC extension of the GNU coding standards. I think
> that would be reliatively bugless enough to end up in Stage 3.

Really?  That sounds like a rather daunting task to me.  You propose
to check for proper indentation and spacing, and all the other style
guidelines in section 5 of the GNU coding standards?  Well, I wish you
luck.  But I don't think that this is a stage 3 feature.



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