On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 4/19/2011 7:11 PM, Brad Roberts wrote: >> The stronger argument, that I agree with, is not having flag based >> sometimes warnings. The more flags you have, the more complex the matrix >> of landmines there are. I hate micro-managment, in all it's forms. > > True, if you have N compiler switches, you have 2^N different compilers to > test! Every switch added doubles the time it takes to validate the compiler.
Software testing theory has suggestions for how to reduce the number of test cases here with only a small sacrifice in general error detection. Still, the fewer switches the better :-)
