On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:37:02PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > Agreed. As we already have a flag that can be used as a workaround I don't > > see > > a reason to add another more specific one. That just makes it a > > lesser incentive > > for people to fix their code. > > Well, -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks is a big hammer, that disables way > to many optimizations than really necessary.
But then perhaps it will be better incentive for the projects to fix their cruft. With a specialized option they will keep broken code forever. Jakub