On Feb 8, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Matthieu Monrocq wrote:

> I don't quite see the need to move a warning *away* from -Wall.
> 
> I understand that fixing large code bases is unpractical, I have some such 
> medium large (and oldish) code bases to deal with. However simply tuning the 
> Makefile (-Wno-covered-switch-default) is so simple that I don't quite 
> understand the reluctance here.
> 
> It may require a (slight) change of mentality, but the obvious advantage of 
> blacklisting some warnings, is that at least you make explicit what is not 
> checked.
> 
> I don't quite see why Open Source projects would reject a patch to add a few 
> -Wno-XXXX to their makefiles. Certainly this seems trivial and harmless.

Fair points.  I'm certainly willing to discuss this further, but I would like 
some more data points/voices in this discussion.
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