Re: [PATCH] manywarnings: -Wstrict-overflow is deprecated

Collin Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes:

> Do you happen to know whether gcc 17 will, when invoked with the option
> -Wstrict-overflow, report
>
>   gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-Wstrict-overflow’
>
> or will this be at most a warning?
>
> I am worried about existing release tarballs that add -Wstrict-overflow
> to the CFLAGS (either via manywarnings.m4 or through other means):
> will they still work with gcc 17?

Yes, that is a bit worrying.

It would also affect all the distributions that build from git tags, and
therefore enable warnings that were only meant for developers.

Collin
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