Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:52 PM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:03 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> > Now, I could buy that -Werror turns NEW warnings into fatal errors,
> > due to the use of a newer toolchain, since upstream probably didn't
> > test with that toolchain and thus wouldn't have seen the warning.
>
> Yes, exactly. This is one of the major things people have said repeatedly.
>
> Werror makes moving gcc forward much more difficult.
>

Sure, but wouldn't a block on newer versions of gcc cause similar headaches?

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Rich