On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 18:56, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 18:46, Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Thomas Koenig wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > What would people think about a -Weverything option which turns on > > > every warning there is? > > > > > > I think that could be quite useful in some circumstances, especially > > > to find potential bugs with warnings that people, for some reason > > > or other, found too noisy for -Wextra. > > > > > > The name could be something else, of course. In the best GNU tradition, > > > -Wkitchen-sink could be another option :-) > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31573 and duplicates already > > list quite a few arguments. Basically, it could be useful for debugging > > gcc or to discover warnings, but gcc devs fear that users will actually > > use it for real. > > Every LLVM dev I've spoken to thinks their -Weverything was a mistake > and hates it. It was meant to be for option discovery by automated > tools, but users started using it.
My other arguments against it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11720263/981959
