Re: Is it time to take the middle-end stringop/array warnings out of -Wall?

Martin Uecker via Gcc <[email protected]>
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Am Mittwoch, dem 20.05.2026 um 19:50 +0200 schrieb Eric Botcazou:
> > I'd tend to prefer moving to -Wextra.  Though I suspect they'll bitrot
> > over time in there :(  I've seen them find real issues, but I think it's
> > reasonably clear that they're causing more pain than they're solving.
> 
> FWIW that's also my experience.

I sometimes find them useful (in C, C++ might be affected differently).

I also observe that people invent entirely new languages which are much
stricter and which fail hard for things which would be considered
false positives, so keeping them at least in -Wextra would seem
appropriate to me.

Martin
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