More C type errors by default for GCC 14
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Tue May 9 20:57:20 GMT 2023
* Eli Zaretskii via Gcc:
>> Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 21:07:07 +0200
>> From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>, arsen@aarsen.me, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>>
>> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 10:04:06PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii via Gcc wrote:
>> > People who ignore warnings will use options that disable these new
>> > errors, exactly as they disable warnings. So we will end up not
>>
>> Some subset of them will surely do that. But I think most people will just
>> fix the code when they see hard errors, rather than trying to work around
>> them.
>
> The same logic should work for warnings. That's why we have warnings,
> no?
People completely miss the warning and go to great lengths to show that
what they are dealing is a compiler bug. (I tried to elaborate on that
in <87cz394b63.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>.) If GCC errors out, that
simply does not happen because there is no object code to examine.
Thanks,
Florian
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