https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67820
--- Comment #3 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to David Binderman from comment #2) > >I have almost always seen people use -Wall -W > > Doubtful. Looking at a bunch of recent Fedora package builds > > $ fgrep -l Wextra fedora/pass78/201512*/* | wc -l > 35 > $ fgrep -l Wall fedora/pass78/201512*/* | wc -l > 589 > > On an earlier and bigger set of builds: > > $ fgrep -l Wextra fedora/pass77/2015*/* | wc -l > 523 > $ fgrep -l Wall fedora/pass77/2015*/* | wc -l > 5983 > $ > Did you grep for -W ? Because I bet there are a lot more people who use that instead of -Wextra. Seriously -W has been wildly in use for years (over 20 years now) and people would use that over -Wextra because the code is older than -Wextra was added to GCC.