Re: [Gnash-dev] --enable-strict

[Martin Guy]

> A couple of words about --enable-strict.
> It currently just adds -ansi -pedantic -Wno-long-long, but

Should check for strict ANSI C, so you can make sure no one is using
GNU extensions.

> For --enable-strict, I'd instead add a -Werror, and possibly
> make that the default.
Warnings depend what compiler and processor you are compiling on - I
think that would break many builds that would have succeeded otherwise
but that you cannot test.

> This would force developers to fix
> the warnings immediately.
Not really. Trying to force people to do things by devious mechanical
means is usually counter-productive.  The sort of people who see
warnings but do not care to fix them will just turn all error checking
off.

   M