Sven Panne <svenpa...@gmail.com> writes: > 2016-02-15 20:16 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari <b...@smart-cactus.org>: > >> Sven Panne <svenpa...@gmail.com> writes: >> The reason for this is that the things missing signatures are pattern >> synonyms, which have their warnings controlled by -Wmissing-pat-syn-sigs >> [1], which is enabled in -Wall by default. >> > > OK, I missed that in the release notes. Two points here: > > * The naming of the options is horrible, sometimes it's "sigs", > sometimes it's "signatures". I would prefer if we named them consistently > (probably "signatures", it's easier to search for). > Indeed, I noticed that this when looking this up for you. The inconsistency is quite unfortunate. Perhaps -Wmissing-pattern-signatures or -Wmissing-patsyn-signatures? -Wmissing-pattern-synonym-signatures is a bit of a mouthful.
> * Given the myriad of warning-related options, It is *extremely* hard to > figure out which one caused the actual warning in question. The solution to > this is very easy and done this way in clang/gcc (don't remember which one, > I'm switching quite often): Just suffix all warnings consistently with the > option causing it, e.g. > Indeed, this is #10752, as hvr pointed out. I'm not sure whether David has done anything on this yet; feel free to take a stab at implementing it if you have some free time. - Ben
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