On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Wakely> * Additional `-W...`
flags are introduced in new gcc/g++ versions, which

> > check for new potential code smells, possibly related to later language
> > standards. That's great (thanks!).
>
> And the most widely useful ones are added to -Wall so you don't need
> to know about them and add them explicitly.
>

"Most" != "All".

IMVHO it is too strong to say "you don't need to know about [other ones]".
You might say you don't _typically_ need to know about them. Quite possibly
so; but the feature request is for the use case of people who, like me,
find some of the non-Wall non-Wextra warnings to be useful. These
additional flags exist for a reason...

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