------- Comment #3 from olly at survex dot com 2008-01-14 00:58 ------- If by "delete this option from the C++ FE" you mean that `g++ -Winit-self [...]' would give an error, I'm not sure that's the best approach if the option is likely to be sorted out for C++ in the future. Removing it now will break existing makefiles which use -Winit-self for C++ compilations. And once -Winit-self is sorted out for C++, it will be harder to write a makefile which gives a warning for self-initialised variables for any GCC version (if it's left as-is for now, then -Winit-self can just be specified all the time for any GCC version >= 3.4).
The situation here is slightly odd in that -Winit-self is effectively always on for C++, so in a way it does work - it's not specifying it (or -Wno-init-self) which doesn't! I think it would be better to fix the documentation to reflect the current behaviour for C++/ObjC++, and mark this bug as an enhancement request. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34772
