On 05/16/2011 06:52 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > On May 16, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 05/16/2011 05:50 PM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: >>> Andrew, >>> >>> I guess we can add to build system something like >>> >>> ALT_COMPILER_FLAGS >>> >>> and turn on all warnings and -Werror by default. >>> >>> Having zero-warning build is good practice and it's not too costly. >> >> It'd drive you mad. gcc's -Wall is really not suitable to be enabled >> by default; it was never intended for that. > > But there is probably a set of warnings or options, e.g. > -Wall -Wno-this -Wno-that -Werror > that might be suitable to standardize on, right?
I think so, but you have to allow for semi-crazy distros that patch gcc in interesting ways. > Although, that might be a different list with each gcc release as I have > noticed. Yes. > We need a -Wall-the-warnings-that-are-really-important-to-fix ;^) Indeed. Every year or two we gcc maintainers argue about what set that would be... Andrew.
