Re: GCC & errors

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:11:51 +0100

Note: I said -Werror, not -W

-Werror makes GCC threat warnings as errors, making sure the compile
stops when there is a warning.

/Henrik

Robert Collins wrote:
>
> Well -Wall turns on most errors.
> I actuall find -pedantic turns on less errors that
> -Wall -W
> which was realllllly pedantic.
>
> Still, up to the individual :]
>
> the following link is useful for reference purposes..
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc_3.html#SEC10
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>
> To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> Cc: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: GCC & errors
>
> > -pedantic gives a bit too many errors, but there are quite many
> warning
> > flags that can be enabled in GCC. I strongly recommend at least using
> > -Werror to not accidently overlook one warning..
> >
> > /Henrik
> >
> >
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > can I suggest that developers test their code building
> with -pedantic
> > > (ie in the Makefile
> > > AC_CFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic
> > > )
> > >
> > > or
> > > CFLAGS = '-g -O2 -Wall -pedantic' ../srctree/configure ....
> > >
> > > That has got me at least some of the errors Adrian is seeing with
> irix
> > > (different report format, same error AFAICT)
> > >
> > > Rob
> >
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