On Apr 22, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:37:24PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
>
>> A bug on the inability to get clang to reject *as an error rather than
>> as a warning* an unknown -f flag has been filed. (You can get it to
>> reject unknown -W flags as errors with
>> -Werror=unknown-warning-option.)
>
> Thanks. That would make the AC_WIRESHARK_GCC_CFLAGS_CHECK() to realize
> that it isn't an acceptable option wouldn't it?
Using -Werror=unknown-warning-option in AC_WIRESHARK_GCC_CFLAGS_CHECK(), which we do in the trunk, does, in fact, make AC_WIRESHARK_GCC_CFLAGS_CHECK() recognize unknown -W flags as unacceptable options. However, -Werror=unknown-warning-option does *NOT* affect the treatment of unknown -f options, so -fexcess-precision=fast is still not recognized by AC_WIRESHARK_GCC_CFLAGS_CHECK() as unacceptable to clang. That's why the bug in question was filed against clang.