From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10857 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2004 09:03:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 10826 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2004 09:02:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lon-mail-2.gradwell.net) (193.111.201.126) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 21 Sep 2004 09:02:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 55829 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2004 09:02:58 -0000 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (postmaster%pop3.polyomino.org.uk@81.187.227.50) by lon-mail-2.gradwell.net with SMTP; 21 Sep 2004 09:02:58 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1C9gY5-0007YE-Sn; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:02:57 +0000 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:39:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: Paolo Bonzini cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Mark Mitchell , Dale Johannesen , Nathan Sidwell , Jason Merrill Subject: Re: DR handling for C++ In-Reply-To: <414FD78C.5010706@gnu.org> Message-ID: References: <414F37E0.3020509@codesourcery.com> <79845B6C-0B44-11D9-8A65-000A95D7CD40@apple.com> <414F412C.90504@codesourcery.com> <4FFC8911-0B47-11D9-ADB7-000A95AA5E5E@apple.com> <414FD78C.5010706@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg01220.txt.bz2 On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > The name pedwarn() has been a bit confusing (because it suggests a link to > > -pedantic which isn't really there, the link being that -pedantic-errors > > turns pedwarns from warnings to errors), but I don't have a good suggestion > > for a less confusing name. > > -pedantic-errors is itself not very well named... maybe -Wextra-errors or > something like that would be more suited now that -W has become -Wextra. -Wextra-errors sounds like it turns the messages from -Wextra into errors. (The regular form for that in line with other similar options would be -Werror-extra - and any general warning control scheme would probably lead to such options corresponding to each warning option - but -Wextra-errors still sounds too similar to -Werror-extra.) -- Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/ http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/#c90status - status of C90 for GCC 4.0 jsm@polyomino.org.uk (personal mail) jsm28@gcc.gnu.org (Bugzilla assignments and CCs)