From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5492 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2012 11:46:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 5483 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Apr 2012 11:46:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:46:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E50290030; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:46:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ljjqCJn5S8JW; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:46:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bon31-6-88-161-99-133.fbx.proxad.net [88.161.99.133]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6930D290009; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:46:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Eric Botcazou To: Gabriel Dos Reis Subject: Re: RFC: -Wall by default Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:46:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Dominique Dhumieres , law@redhat.com References: <20120404183438.CCA083BE18@mailhost.lps.ens.fr> <201204050056.59867.ebotcazou@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201204051345.12172.ebotcazou@adacore.com> Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00171.txt.bz2 > From developer perspective, we think that -Wall is so simple to > remember, because > in fact, we are used to handle so many complex things that this one five > letter is nothing. However, users aren't as sophisticated as we would like > them to (I am not being condescending.) The way we have to approach this > is how can we satisfy persistent demands and still remain competitive. I personally don't buy the "can't remember" argument. When you use GCC, you just have to remember -g, -O, -W and that's pretty much it. -- Eric Botcazou