Richard, if the documentation would have said explicitly that Werror "makes warnings to prevent compilation", would you have understood it better?
One proposal: -Werror makes all warnings into errors, preventing compilation (see also -Wfatal-errors). On 12/05/06, Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/12/06, D. Ensign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to tell gcc to quit when a warning is encountered > > > (or even if a specific warning is encountered). Is there a way to do > > > this? > > > > Yes. -Werror. If you can tell us why you weren't able to find it in > > the documentation, perhaps we can address that! > > Partly, because I never learned to read. Partly, I'm impatient. Partly, because when any > search containing "warning" is extremely unhelpful when you actually LIKE the warnings. > Partly, the man page says, "Make all warnings into errors" for -Werror when perhaps it > should say, "Treat warnings as errors: stop compilation immediately," or something like > that. The latter might, however, have something to do with my not being able to read. Use -Werror -Wfatal-errors (that will stop after the first error, not trying to continue). Richard.
