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

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Surely the latter; that's the usual approach, taken for example with 
> -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations.

Indeed, the option will now be documented as
"Does nothing.  Preserved for backward compatibility." [1].

Bruno

[1] gcc commit b31a43560e88600d412318f75a43ac8e562ba8c5