Possibly an annoying test in configure

Torbjörn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Sun Aug 20 11:48:59 CEST 2023


Niels Möller <nisse at lysator.liu.se> writes:

  I would *not* want to support -Werror as something to be used in general
  by users, with arbitrary compiler versions, compile flag tweaks, etc.

Indeed.

There is a fashion among compiler maintainers to accept an ever
decreasing subset of C, making any effort at producing accepted code a
wild goose chase.

I think warnings have gone from useful to mostly annoying, and that's
already without "-Werror"-like flags.

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