Warning C vs C++

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Sun Sep 18 16:54:00 GMT 2005


* Tommy Vercetti:

>> The warning is controlled by -Wsign-compare, which is turned on by
>> -Wextra (also known as -W) but not by -Wall.  It's not turned on by
>> -Wall because it is not normally a problem.

> That's strange, all users I know expected it to turn ALL warnings,
> hence name.

Some people claim it's a homage to Larry Wall, inventor of Perl.

Back in the 90s, there used to be a joke among Python developers that
a "uido" debugging format should be added to GCC.



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