On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> wrote: > On 4/8/2012 4:23 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > >> I think I agree with this. I suspect the only difference might be that >> I do not believe the fix is necessarily to turn them off. > > > Well there are three possibilities > > a) fix the false positives, at the possible expense of introducing > new false negatives, but most of these warnings are very far from > sound anyway (they do not guarantee that code not raising the warning > is free from the problem involved). > > b) remove from -Wstandard > > c) leave in -Wstandard and live with the false positives > > I am saying I prefer these alternatives in the order given above. > I suspect you agree with this ordering?
Yes. > > I use -Wstandard here just as a label for whatever gets turned > on by default if a change is made. Whether the new switch with > this name is introduced is an orthogonal issue. > >> >>> (certainly not an attitude that is >>> taken with -Wall, if I am wrong, I have hundreds of bugs to >>> report :-)) Yes, occasionally you get a case that you end up >>> considering SO obscure that you violate this rule, but it is >>> rare. >> >> >> -Wall, despite the name, does not turn on all warnings. > > > Yes, I know, what's that got to do with the comment above >
