On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:17:58PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
[...] because you guys (reasonably) cannot test every gcc/C library version/flags/arch combination. [...]
Exactly - and even we encountered the downsides of this as fedora/rawhide moved between different patches of gcc 5.* that had different warning policies.
As far as I know when gcc 5.* started to report new issues we fixed them in Fedora and backported them when they made sense.
I really am a fan of fixing compiler warnings, they very often do point out something that needs attention. I also really would like to know what the advantage of a new configure option is over users being able to set their own CFLAGS with -Wno-error included if they feel that is necessary.
Cheers,
Mark