Re: Removing -Wunsuffixed-float-constants, -Wdouble-promotion, -Wformat-zero-length

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/29/11 09:35, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> +  gl_WARN_ADD([-Wno-unsuffixed-float-constants])
>
> How about if we remove -Wunsuffixed-float-constants from
> manywarnings.m4?  In practice it typically causes more
> trouble than it cures (the above-quoted gzip patch is
> one example, but I've run into it elsewhere).

Good idea.

> While we're on the subject of manywarnings.m4, can we also
> remove -Wdouble-promotion and -Wformat-zero-length?  They
> also seem to be more suited for special- rather than
> general-purpose code.

Coreutils' gnulib lib/* files had only one
"-Wdouble-promotion"-triggered warning:

    # FIXME: it may be easy to remove this, since it affects only one file:
    # the snprintf call at ftoastr.c:132.
    nw="$nw -Wdouble-promotion"

So maybe it's not a burden to most projects.
I haven't investigated the ftoastr.c issue.

Have you found code that triggers a -Wformat-zero-length warning
yet that doesn't seem worth adjusting?