From: Harvey Chapman <hchapman-gcc-help@3gfp.com>
To: "gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Where did the warning go?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A43526.3070307@3gfp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38wnvg1sv.fsf@google.com>
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> The name -Wall was chosen some 20 years ago. Perhaps it was a mistake,
> however it was decided, and documented, and has been used successfully,
> for a long time. I think it would take a very persuasive argument to
> change it now. That argument would need to be more than merely "the
> name doesn't seem right for what it does." You need to consider the
> cost of changing all the Makefiles out there which use it, and the
> benefits of making the change.
>
Why not change it to -Wmost or -Wpopular and then mark -Wall as
deprecated for 3-5 years before removal. I would think that would be a
reasonable time frame for such a change with so much history. Or just
leave -Wall as-is, and just discourage further use via a deprecated warning.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-24 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 16:07 Eivind Lyche Melvær
2009-02-13 16:27 ` John (Eljay) Love-Jensen
2009-02-13 17:57 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-14 2:25 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-02-20 15:39 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-20 16:21 ` John (Eljay) Love-Jensen
2009-02-23 20:39 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-02-24 14:03 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-24 14:13 ` Tom St Denis
2009-02-24 15:10 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-24 18:29 ` Tom St Denis
2009-02-25 0:07 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-24 15:43 ` John (Eljay) Love-Jensen
2009-02-24 15:52 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2009-02-24 17:52 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-02-24 17:58 ` Harvey Chapman [this message]
2009-02-25 0:23 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-25 12:09 ` Tom St Denis
2009-02-25 12:25 ` John (Eljay) Love-Jensen
2009-02-25 13:02 ` Tom St Denis
2009-02-25 13:17 ` Andrew Haley
2009-02-25 21:48 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-02-25 0:37 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-25 0:23 Tom St Denis
2009-02-25 13:53 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-25 14:20 ` Tom St Denis
2009-02-25 15:56 ` Eivind LM
2009-02-25 16:16 ` Tom St Denis
2009-02-25 17:16 ` John Z. Bohach
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