On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/04/2012 03:56 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> On 04/04/2012 10:44 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >>>> For GCC-4.8, I would like to turn on -Wall by default. >>>> Comments? >>> >>> Umm, should this really happen at exactly the same time as C++ >>> by default? >> >> I assume that Gaby is talking about making -Wall the default for users >> of GCC. > > Oh, wow. Really? That's a big change. Time to be brave, I guess, > but I very much like the idea of a gcc that does just what it's told; > making -Wall the default is a big break with tradition.
Sometimes, we have to be brave to challenge tradition. The world around us is moving and we definitely want GCC to remain competitive. It is hard to define what "it's told" means without tripping over. The interesting thing about -Wall is that it is pretty safe, for the most part, in terms of false positives. -- Gaby
