r208345 - Remove -Wnon-modular-include

Richard Smith richard at metafoo.co.uk
Thu May 8 13:27:32 PDT 2014


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Ben Langmuir <blangmuir at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> Author: benlangmuir
>> Date: Thu May  8 13:09:29 2014
>> New Revision: 208345
>>
>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=208345&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Remove -Wnon-modular-include
>>
>> But keep -Wnon-modular-include-in-[framework-]module
>>
>> This warning is too noisy and doesn't really indicate a problem for most
>> people.  Even though it would only really affect people using
>> -Weverything, that seems bad so remove it.
>>
>
> Wait a second, we were planning on using this to replace
> -fmodules-strict-decluse. People using -Weverything need to use -Wno-foo
> for the warnings they don't want; that's the cost of using that option.
>

>From when -Weverything was added:

Eli Friedman wrote:
> This seems like a bad idea: people will start using it, then complain
> whenever we add a new warning which isn't generically applicable
> (suppose we add an opt-in warning for C-style casts in C++, for
> example).  We already have -Wextra for people who want lots of> warnings.

Ted Kremenek responded:
[...]
> -Weverything is not for everybody, and for those that complain about
> new warnings we can (and should) tell them to take the opt-in approach
> as opposed to the opt-out approach.  I don't see a problem with really
> serving both sets of user preferences.

=> We do not get to use -Weverything as an excuse for removing warning that
are noisy and that some users aren't interested in.
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