More C type errors by default for GCC 14

Jonathan Wakely jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Tue May 9 17:15:59 GMT 2023


On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 17:56, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > 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.

People ignore warnings. That's why the problems have gone unfixed for
so many years, and will continue to go unfixed if invalid code keeps
compiling.


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