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        <th>Issue</th>
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            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/129261>129261</a>
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    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            Should -Wwrite-strings be renamed to -fwrite-strings?
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            new issue
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      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          alejandro-colomar
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<pre>
    GCC bug: <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119068>
Cc: @AaronBallman 

-f flags are meant to change the meaning of code, while -W flags are meant to add diagnostics without changing the meaning of code.


-Wwrite-strings is an oddity, since it does change the meaning of code:

```c
alx@debian:~/tmp$ cat ws.c 
int
main(void)
{
        return _Generic(&*"", const char *: 0, char *: 1);
}
alx@debian:~/tmp$ gcc -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings ws.c 
alx@debian:~/tmp$ ./a.out; echo $?
0
alx@debian:~/tmp$ gcc -Wall -Wextra -Wno-write-strings ws.c 
alx@debian:~/tmp$ ./a.out; echo $?
1
alx@debian:~/tmp$ clang -Weverything -Wwrite-strings ws.c -Wno-pre-c11-compat
alx@debian:~/tmp$ ./a.out; echo $?
0
alx@debian:~/tmp$ clang -Weverything -Wno-write-strings ws.c -Wno-pre-c11-compatalx@debian:~/tmp$ ./a.out; echo $?
1
```

Should we add -fwrite-strings, and keep -Wwrite-strings as a deprecated synonym?
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