question regarding new warning
Thomas Preud'homme
thomas.preudhomme@arm.com
Thu Mar 27 08:22:00 GMT 2014
> From: Andrew Haley [mailto:aph@redhat.com]
>
> The trouble with warnings like this is that they trigger far too
> frequently on good (i.e. correct, reasonable, just as the programmer
> intended) code. They bring warnings into disrepute. They also cause
> people to do extra work just to shut the compiler up, and this often
> IME leads to inadvertent code breakage.
Sure, I would be again enabling it by default. This means it should *not* be enabled by Wall or even Wextra.
Best regards,
Thomas Preud'homme
More information about the Gcc
mailing list