Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> Some Google(tm)ing does turn up plenty of other people complaining about
> similar behaviour. This report seems to have the most enlightening response:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54561
Yeah, I saw that before too. I got an interesting response from Jakub J.
just now as well:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185673
It sounds like the appearance of the warning is contingent on code
generation decisions, making it even less likely to ever be useful
to us in its current form.
> Perhaps Clang has a more useful warning?
Clang, at least the version on my Mac, doesn't warn either with the
settings we normally use, and it doesn't have -Wclobber at all.
I tried turning on -Weverything, and it still didn't complain.
(It did generate incorrect code though, so it's no better than gcc
in that respect.)
regards, tom lane