On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 03:28:54PM +0300, Michael Veksler wrote: > On 04/05/2012 02:45 PM, Eric Botcazou wrote: > >I personally don't buy the "can't remember" argument. When you use > >GCC, you just have to remember -g, -O, -W and that's pretty much > >it.
> Many of the students don't know of -Wall because they don't read the > gcc manual, > either because they are overwhelmed with assignments and exams, or because > they are intimidated by big manuals written in technical English. > Either way, many > won't use -Wall unless they are told to. > > My conclusion: it would be much better for beginners to have more > warnings turned on. > A possible solution might be to permit our spec file to turn on -Wall by default (it is probably possible today, or easily patchable) and more importantly to document how to customize the spec file to make -Wall by default. But I do agree that newbies need -Wall even more than others, but don't know about it. Cheers -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***
