Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:28:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and lint-like utility
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> > And add -Werror for a good measure ;-)
> 
> I'd rather not. With this combination of -W flags, it's *extremely* hard
> to get by without a single warning. Adding -Werror, here, would over-do
> it.

We are not compiling, remember?  We are using GCC as a replacement for 
Lint.  So it is okay if it doesn't compile; we can remove -Werror later, 
if we want to get an executable anyway.

In addition, when you compile several files in one go (e.g., from a 
Makefile), -Werror will stop the compilation after the first file which 
triggered any messages.  This makes it easier to fix problems one file at 
a time.