Re: Removing -Wunsuffixed-float-constants, -Wdouble-promotion, -Wformat-zero-length

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 11/29/2011 02:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>> Unless there are objections (portability?)
>>>
>>> Aargh.  I just reread C99.
>>>
>>> F (and f) for float, and L (or l) for long double are required, but D
>>> (or d) for double is a GNU extension.
>>>
>>> Since we can't silence the warning without adding an explicit 'D', but
>>> 'D' is not standardized, I have changed my mind.  Let's nuke the warning.
>>
>> So for starters, I'm pushing this:
>
> Please revert or change this -- like other warnings, this warning is
> useful in some projects and not useful in others, and the idea with
> manywarnings.m4 is that all warnings should be enabled and each project
> has to disable the warnings they don't like incrementally.  See
> doc/manywarnings.texi for background.
>
> The function you added modified was this one:
>
> # gl_MANYWARN_ALL_GCC(VARIABLE)
> # -----------------------------
> # Add all documented GCC (currently as per version 4.4) warning
> # parameters to variable VARIABLE.

Hi Simon,

Isn't that 4.4 out of date, now?
Considering you updated the list recently, I'd expect 4.6 there.