Hello all; This is a change which enables additional compiler warnings for native compilation when using GCC. The (-Wformat -Wformat-security) options are supported by GCC 3.0.4 (the earliest version I checked, c. February 2002) and later so we shouldn't see issues with incompatibility.- Wextra appears to have been added in GCC 3.4.X line (c. 2004) so it should also be reasonably well adopted and replaces -W.
The core of the change is to add : -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wformat -Wformat-security for general C and CC++ compilations. For HotSpot C++ compiles a slightly less aggressive set is used: -Wformat -Wformat-security is used. Webrev here: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8030350/0/webrev/ For the curious, yes, the additional checks do generate additional warnings. ;-) This change is targeted at the JDK 9 repos but could be backported to JDK 8 fairly easily/safely. Mike
