https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60523
--- Comment #10 from David Brown <david at westcontrol dot com> --- (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #9) > (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #8) > > *** Bug 70952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** > > While this was a mistake, it still might be worth grouping the flag proposed > in that bug, -Woctal-escapes, and the flag proposed in this bug, > -Woctal-literals, under an umbrella flag called just -Woctal That makes a lot of sense. I expect users who want one of these warnings would want both, so combining them would save effort for users and gcc developers.