Re: -Wall

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm very much in favor of addressing and eliminating all warnings on as many
>> platforms as possible.
>> 
>> That'll be a challenge. When I compile with clang -Weverything, I get
>> ~90,000 warnings.

> I don't even think it's a worthy use of our resources. C compilers move
> towards more and more noisy defaults, so the real challenge is to come up
> with a set of switches that produce a high enough signal-to-noise ratio. I'm
> not saying that the current default is that sweet spot, but -Wall, let alone
> -Weverything, is certainly not it.

-Weverything may be a bit too much, but the alternative -- that of ignoring
warnings because there are too many of them -- is also not a good choice. We
should find the sweet spot we want to adhere to, and then make it clean.

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