> > Andrew Pinski wrote: > >> These are not warnings and they should not cause build failures > >> when -Werror is used, hence warnings are not suitable medium to > >> communicate this info. > >> > > > > There is a third type of diagnostic in GCC which gets not much > > use at all. It is called note. It might be interesting to use that instead > > of saying there is no way to cause no build failures with warnings. > > > That's what I meant when I said "hints" ... > > "However, GCC provides (notes) along with warnings and errors. But they > all reside in build log. While doing performance analysis, build log > may not be available hence it is required to have it on disk somewhere. "
If you are doing performance analysis the build log better be able to look at to make sure you are building with the correct options unless you trust the IDEs (which I and many other people don't). -- Pinski
