Re: AC_FLAGS_WARN_ALL changes proposed for inclusion in next autoconf release

"David A. Wheeler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:12:11 -0400, "Visser, Dale" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Autoconf developers:
....
> The basic idea is to overall enhance the security of code built using autoconf, by turning on compiler warnings that the developers wouldn't otherwise think to.

I think this is *awesome*.  I would really like to see this included in autoconf.  It helps developers (by automatically warning them of problems) and later builders (many build warnings are a warning signal that the code *may* be of poor quality).

I note that this also includes "AC_APPEND_FLAG", which is a great general-purpose mechanism for portably setting compiler flags (it only sets flags if the compiler supports the flag).

--- David A. Wheeler
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