On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> wrote: > On 4/9/2012 1:08 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Gerald Pfeifer<ger...@pfeifer.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 8 Apr 2012, Robert Dewar wrote: >>>> >>>> Do you really want me to file hundreds of bug reports that are for >>>> cases of uninitialized variables well known to everyone, and well >>>> understood by everyone, and not easy to fix (or would have been >>>> fixed long ago)? >>> >>> >>> Perhaps we should move this class of warning from -Wall to -Wextra? >>> >>> (I'd prefer that over introducing yet another option -Wstandard.) >> >> >> That would be my preferred solution -- by far. But, my understanding >> is that that would provoke a riot so I am willing to compromise by >> introducing >> a new warning switch (even if I dislike that thought.) >> Hopefully, it is it is going to be the default, most people would not have >> to learn yet another GCC switch. > > > I would not like to see -Wall lose warnings that it has now, and I think > others would find that a problme. -Wextra may be too much for that same > group of people. > > We have certainly found it useful to have three general categories of > warnings in GNAT > > a) the warnings that are on by default > b) the warnings that are turned on by -gnatWa (similar to -Wall) > c) all warnings (tunred on by -gnatw.e)
We are in agreement. I was just explaining to Gerald that his proposal would have been my first choice, but I am compromising by moving to your suggestion. My complaint is the introduction of a new switch just to accomodate warnings that should not have been in -Wall. But, I can live with that. > >> >>> >>> Gerald > >
