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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 23:52:21
Message-Id: CAEdQ38FBnSz-zdUw+iiysFX5qjRj6sxY7nMEQHh+qzJeqHdMug@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror by Rich Freeman
1 On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:03 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > Now, I could buy that -Werror turns NEW warnings into fatal errors,
3 > due to the use of a newer toolchain, since upstream probably didn't
4 > test with that toolchain and thus wouldn't have seen the warning.
5
6 Yes, exactly. This is one of the major things people have said repeatedly.
7
8 Werror makes moving gcc forward much more difficult.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>