More C type errors by default for GCC 14

Sam James sam@gentoo.org
Tue May 9 17:05:09 GMT 2023


Eli Zaretskii via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 18:38:05 +0200
>> From: Arsen Arsenović via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
>> 
>> You're actively dismissing the benefit.
>
> Which benefit?
>
> No one has yet explained why a warning about this is not enough, and
> why it must be made an error.  Florian's initial post doesn't explain
> that, and none of the followups did, although questions about whether
> a warning is not already sufficient were asked.
>
> That's a simple question, and unless answered with valid arguments,
> the proposal cannot make sense to me, at least.

My email covers this:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-May/241269.html.

I'd also note that some of the issues I've seen were already flagged
in people's CI but they didn't notice because it was just a warning.
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