Recommendation: Compile DMD with More Warnings

[asman]

On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 09:49:59 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> I recommend the lead developers of DMD to look into activating 
> more warnings in the dmd/src/posix.mak.
>
> GCC 4.8.2 and especially Clang 3.4, both prepackage on Ubuntu 
> 13.10/14.04 give a *lot* of warnings that seems to indicate 
> potential bugs in the DMD source code.
>
> This setting gives useful warnings and at the same time avoid 
> the annoying ones
>
> WARNINGS=-Wall -Wextra -Wno-deprecated -Wstrict-aliasing 
> -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-variable -Wunused-function 
> -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-sign-compare 
> -Wno-overloaded-virtual -Wno-missing-braces 
> -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
>
> For example there a *lot* of -Wsometimes-uninitialized which 
> IMHO seems like the most dangereous ones. This one is however 
> Clang specific but I have not had any problems running a Clang 
> compiled version of DMD. Further Clang compiles DMD about 
> twices as fast as GCC. Good work developers on disabling use of 
> STL in DMD!
>
> I can do a pull request if desired for the posix.make update if 
> wanted.

Could be great too if someone run a static analyzer like on dmd
code http://www.cppcat.com I'll try when I back to Windows