dblaikie added a comment.

In D158137#4597491 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D158137#4597491>, @dexonsmith 
wrote:

> In D158137#4597009 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D158137#4597009>, @MaskRay wrote:
>
>> In D158137#4596948 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D158137#4596948>, @dexonsmith 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you explain the downside of leaving behind an alias?
>>
>> Two minor ones. (a) Existing `-Wno-overriding-t-option` will not notice that 
>> they need to migrate and (b) Clang has accrued tiny tech debt.
>> If we eventually remove `-Wno-overriding-t-option` for tidiness, we will 
>> have to break `-Werror -Wno-overriding-t-option` users.
>
> I guess it's not clear to me we'd need to remove the alias. The usual policy 
> (I think?) is that clang driver options don't disappear. It seems like a 
> small piece of debt to maintain the extra alias in this case, and if it's 
> kept, then users don't actually need to migrate. And then you can feel safe 
> updating Darwin.cpp as well.

+1 to this, FWIW - I wouldn't consider it technical debt to keep a compatible 
warning flag name that's been around for a decade & isn't a name we're trying 
to free up for some other use or because it causes any great confusion, etc.


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