Some suggested future GCC options

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From: Noah Friedman
To: Roland McGrath, Richard Stallman, Jim Blandy, Michael Bushnell
Cc: chris williams, Christian Longshore Claiborn
Subject: Some gcc options we'd like to see.
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 00:45:09 EST
-Waggravate-return

-Wcast-spell

-Wcaste-align

-Win

-Wmissing-protons

-Wredundant-repetitions

-antsy

-fbungee-jump

-fexpensive-operations

-fextra-strength

-fjesus-saves

-fkeep-programmers-inline

-fno-peeping-toms

-fruit-roll-ups

-fshort-enough

-mno-dialogue

-pedophile

-vomit-frame-pointer

From: Alexandre Oliva
Date: 06 Jan 2002 17:37:07 -0200
On Jan 2, 2002, in a long, heated thread concerning the interpretation of certain passages of the C standard, jtv wrote:
> (Yes, I'm a pedant.  I'm pining for the day when gcc will support the
> options “-ffascist -Wanal”)
How about introducing the options ‘-flame -War’ :-)

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