> The simpler requests are -Wall by default. (there are some occasional > -pedantic). > > The ones I've heard in person -- with the requesters quite competent and > respectable programmers -- are in less polite words what I can possibly > convey in this discussion. Adding more options isn't on the top of the list > (to quote "I can't go through the 10000 options to figure out which ones > will work for something this obvious that should be done by default.")
Could you give some examples of which warnings these people were expecting to be "obviously enabled by default" ? I think that would be helpful. BTW, I don't think -pedantic should be enabled by default, or this wouldn't be "pedantic" anymore. Arno