I definitely don't agree when it comes to GCC. While it does its job well and, importantly, has helpful error messages, its command line arguments are a mess. -

I definitely don't agree when it comes to GCC. While it does its job well and, importantly, has helpful error messages, its command line arguments are a mess. -Wall enables all warnings right? Yep, except for the ones that you need -Wextra. But don't forget there are more that aren't covered here. And let's not even get into the appropriately-named -pedantic. Like I said, GCC gets its job done well, and once I've got what I need spelled out in my Makefile I'm good. But it's a headache to work with when you go off the beaten path.