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Be advised that every new C project written by experienced developers begins with `-Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror`

• account42 6y ago
  -Werror is a bad idea for open source projects or anything that will be compiled by people who do not know how to fix things when their shiny new compiler added a fancy warning. -Werror=... for specific warnings might be OK in some cases.
  • ddevault 6y ago
    They can just remove -Werror when compiling. It's useful enough to keep in place by default if you consider warnings bugs (and you ought to).
    • saagarjha 6y ago
      So would you agree that it might be a useful thing to use for local development, but not for code you want other people to compile?
• nly 6y ago
  That still doesn't turn on many warnings. Clang has -Weverything for this.
  • gnulinux 6y ago
    -Weverything contains contradictory errors. I think -Wmost is better but it's probably still very noisy.