On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:52 PM Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:03 PM Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Now, I could buy that -Werror turns NEW warnings into fatal errors, > > due to the use of a newer toolchain, since upstream probably didn't > > test with that toolchain and thus wouldn't have seen the warning. > > Yes, exactly. This is one of the major things people have said repeatedly. > > Werror makes moving gcc forward much more difficult. >
Sure, but wouldn't a block on newer versions of gcc cause similar headaches? -- Rich