https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119576
Sam James <sjames at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Sam James <sjames at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Arthur O'Dwyer from comment #0)
> For purposes of this issue here, I don't care about false negatives. I also
> don't care about -Wstringop-overflow — also plagued by false positives —
> because -Wstringop-overflow is rightly not enabled by `-Wall`. But I very
> much do care about the fact that GCC's `-Wall` produces a flood of false
> positives!
Note that -Wstringop-overflow is actually enabled *by default*, even without
-Wall or -Wextra.
Anyway, I agree. In the GCC developer community, it's an open secret that the
warnings are sometimes useful but often a guide for missing optimisations and
are very noisy.
We should at least put all of these under -Wall (not enabled by default), or
moved to -Wextra (even better).
