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dblaikie added a comment.

Historically Clang's policy on warnings was, I think, much more
conservative than it seems to be today. There was a strong desire not to
implement off-by-default warnings, and to have warnings with an
exceptionally low false-positive rate - maybe the user-defined operator
detection was either assumed to, or demonstrated to, have a sufficiently
high false positive rate to not meet that high bar.

(as for the flag splitting - that was sometimes done if the new variant of
a flag had enough bug-finding power that an existing codebase using the
existing flag behavior would need significant cleanup - by having the new
functionality under another flag name, existing codebases upgrading to a
newer compiler wouldn't be forced to either do all that cleanup up-front or
disable the flag & risk regressions... )


Repository:
  rC Clang

https://reviews.llvm.org/D44883



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