On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:54:13AM -0600, Martin Sebor wrote: > I don't mean for the special value to be used except internally > for the defaults. Otherwise, users wanting to override the default > will choose a value other than it. I'm happy to document it in > the .opt file for internal users though. > > -1 has the documented effect of disabling the warnings altogether > (-1 is SIZE_MAX) so while I agree that -1 looks better it doesn't > work. (It would need more significant changes.)
The variable is signed, so -1 is not SIZE_MAX. Even if -1 disables it, you could use e.g. -2 or other negative value for the other special case. Jakub