Re: [HACKERS] --enable-debug

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > It seems that for a debugging environment you should not only put a -g on
> > the command line, but also a -Wall, and you most likely do not want to
> > have any optimization flags there. If no one objects I would like to make
> > this adjustment. (Perhaps the debug and cassert options should even be
> > merged?)
>
> If you want --debug to imply --cassert, OK with me, but I will get upset
> if you rearrange things in such a way that I can't have -O and -g and
> --cassert. In other words --cassert should not imply turning off -O.
>
> Currently, I believe -Wall is turned on automatically if your compiler
> is gcc --- at least it seems to work that way on my platform (maybe
> it's in the hpux_gcc template?). Anyway I get a pretty good set of -W
> options without doing anything special. It is real obvious that some
> other developers do not run with the same options :-(, so I'd certainly
> be glad to see more -W options turned on whenever the compiler is gcc,
> --debug or no.

I remember when we removed every warning gcc -Wall complained about. It
fixed quite a number of problems, and pointed out coding errors in new
patches.

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