Loss of precision errors in FP conversions

[Walter Bright]

On 4/19/2011 7:11 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> The stronger argument, that I agree with, is not having flag based
> sometimes warnings.  The more flags you have, the more complex the matrix
> of landmines there are.  I hate micro-managment, in all it's forms.

True, if you have N compiler switches, you have 2^N different compilers to test! 
Every switch added doubles the time it takes to validate the compiler.

If you have N warnings that can be independently toggled, you have 2^N different 
languages.