Date:	Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:55:26 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT crosswinds DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: -wall messages
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> Actually -Wall turns on _all_ the warnings.

No, it doesn't.  It turns on many warnings, but not all of them.  -W
turns on several more, and then there are -Wfoo options which are not
part of either one of these two.

> the libc refrence "info libc"
> has a section dealing with the various warnings you can enable and disable
> etc..

You meant "info gcc", of course.  Compiler warnings have nothing to do
with the library.

> one difference is that when you compile c++ programs with the command gcc
> you must specify the -lstdcx option asking the linker to link in the c++
> libraries.
> 
> So a sample compile using gcc would go,
> gcc foo.cpp -o foo.exe -lstdcx

You meant -lstdcxx, of course.

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