------- Comment #3 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-07-13 21:42 ------- (In reply to comment #2) > -Wall has a very misleading name and should probably be changed to match the > MSC behaviour (enable all warnings available).
"-Wall This enables all the warnings about constructions that some users consider questionable, and that are easy to avoid (or modify to prevent the warning), even in conjunction with macros. " hmm, I don't know a better name for -Wall really. Since it enables all warnings that are questionable and easy to avoid. implicit integer conversion is easy to avoid but is used all the place in normal C/C++ code. and with integer promotion happening with simple stuff like a + b, some folks will have a hard time to understand that happens which is why it is not enabled with -Wall. Plus there are style warnings not included in -Wall. I really doubt you want style warnings enabled with -Wall :). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40733
