On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> wrote: > Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> writes: > >> On 07/09/2013 12:59 PM, Andreas Arnez wrote: >>> With this situation at hand, I wonder whether it's a good idea to keep >>> maybe-uninitialized included in -Wall. Projects which have been using >>> "-Wall -Werror" successfully for many years are now forced to >>> investigate non-existing bugs in their code. >> >> But maybe-uninitialized is very useful, and it's not really inappropriate >> for -Wall. I would question the appropriateness of using -Wall -Werror >> in production code. > > Unfortunately a number of projects do that. I regularly have to remove > -Werror from shipped makefiles, and it's primarily due to this warning. > > Maybe not erroring on the maybe by default would be a good idea?
No. People expect that -Werror turns warnings into errors. That is what we have documented for years. Starting to special case these things is a royal road to confusion, and a slippery slope. -- Gaby
