how to make gcc stop when there is a warning

[Richard Guenther]

On 5/12/06, D. Ensign <densign@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > > I'd like to tell gcc to quit when a warning is encountered
> > > (or even if a specific warning is encountered). Is there a way to do
> > > this?
> >
> > Yes.  -Werror.  If you can tell us why you weren't able to find it in
> > the documentation, perhaps we can address that!
>
> Partly, because I never learned to read. Partly, I'm impatient. Partly, because when any
> search containing "warning" is extremely unhelpful when you actually LIKE the warnings.
> Partly, the man page says, "Make all warnings into errors" for -Werror when perhaps it
> should say, "Treat warnings as errors: stop compilation immediately," or something like
> that. The latter might, however, have something to do with my not being able to read.

Use -Werror -Wfatal-errors (that will stop after the first error, not
trying to continue).

Richard.