Re: Is it time to take the middle-end stringop/array warnings out of -Wall?

[Richard Biener via Gcc]

> Am 20.05.2026 um 23:11 schrieb Martin Uecker via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>:
> 
> Am Mittwoch, dem 20.05.2026 um 19:50 +0200 schrieb Eric Botcazou:
>>> I'd tend to prefer moving to -Wextra.  Though I suspect they'll bitrot
>>> over time in there :(  I've seen them find real issues, but I think it's
>>> reasonably clear that they're causing more pain than they're solving.
>> 
>> FWIW that's also my experience.
> 
> I sometimes find them useful (in C, C++ might be affected differently).
> 
> I also observe that people invent entirely new languages which are much
> stricter and which fail hard for things which would be considered
> false positives, so keeping them at least in -Wextra would seem
> appropriate to me.

It seems to be a reasonable, if intermediate step.

Richard 

> 
> Martin