On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 2:29 AM Eric Gallager <eg...@gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:24 PM David Malcolm via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > I wrote a blog post covering what I've been working on in the analyzer
> > in this release:
> >  
> > https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/28/static-analysis-updates-in-gcc-11/
> >
> > Hope this is of interest
> > Dave
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for the post! One nit: the post says: "Each of these
> corresponds to a pre-existing warning implemented in the C and C++
> front ends, but with a “-Wanalyzer” prefix rather than “-W.” As an
> example, -Wanalyzer-write-to-const corresponds to -Wwrite-to-const."
> There isn't actually a warning called "-Wwrite-to-const" though. There
> is "-Wwrite-strings" which is similar, but since it isn't actually a
> warning option itself (as per bug 61579), the warning flag that the
> warnings it provokes are actually issued by is -Wdiscarded-qualifiers.
> So, while I got what you meant, it still might confuse new programmers
> who might try to go using a flag called "-Wwrite-to-const" and then
> wonder why it doesn't exist.
>
> Thanks again!
> Eric

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