On Wed, 16 Aug 2023, Eric Gallager via Gcc-patches wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 8:17 PM Eric Gallager <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 5:42 PM Eric Gallager <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > PR109836 is a request to have -Wpointer-sign enabled by default. There
> > > were points of disagreement raised in the bug report, so I figured
> > > that maybe as a compromise, the warning could just be enabled by
> > > -Wextra, as well (I have in fact seen some projects that enable
> > > -Wextra but not -Wall). This patch would implement my suggestion of
> > > adding it to -Wextra, but it's not ready to commit yet, as it still
> > > needs testing, documentation, and a ChangeLog entry. I'm just posting
> > > it here as an RFC; what do people think?
The documentation for -Wextra says "This enables some extra warning flags
that are not enabled by @option{-Wall}." (and this patch doesn't change
that documentation). I don't see any coherent reason for changing that to
add a single one of the -Wall warnings (but not any of the others). (I'm
*not* suggesting making -Wextra a superset of -Wall, but I don't think
this change is a sensible one.)
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Joseph S. Myers
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