Hi Thomas, Thanks for initiating this discussion. The responses are very useful.
That said, wouldn't a -ffix-everything option be more useful? :-) Cheers Paul On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 13:27, Thomas König <t...@tkoenig.net> wrote: > > > > > Am 23.01.2019 um 12:36 schrieb Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com>: > > > > When there are new warnings that aren't enabled by -Wall -Wextra, > > there's probably a reason they aren't enabled by default. > > -Wconversion-extra is an example of such a warning. > > It catches a very common error people make in Fortran, see > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2019-01/msg00178.html for a false bug report > which it would have caught early. > > We left it out of -Wextra because people felt it was too noisy. > > -- "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein