Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> +# gl_MANYWARN_ALL_GCC(VARIABLE)
>> +# -----------------------------
>> +# Add all documented GCC (currently as per version 4.3.2) warning
>> +# parameters to variable VARIABLE. Note that you need to test them
>> +# using gl_WARN_ADD if you want to make sure your gcc understands it.
>> +AC_DEFUN([gl_MANYWARN_ALL_GCC],
>
> Recent gcc versions have improved the --help interface so that you can
> specify --help=warnings, --help=optimizers, and so on. You could
> potentially autogenerate this list with
>
> COLUMNS=999 gcc --help=warnings | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'
>
> But only if gcc is new enough (4.3+).
Right, problem is that it isn't possible to infer which warnings are
implied by -Wall, -W etc, so a naive parsing will duplicate warnings.
However, the list seems to mention several warning flags which are not
discussed in the manual, I'll look into those...
> Also, while on the topic of warning control, you might be interested in
> -fdiagnostics-show-option which is available in 4.1+ and causes gcc to
> augment each diagnostic message with the name of the -W option that
> controls that message (at least for those that have a corresponding
> option.)
I'm using it, thanks.
/Simon
