Code::Blocks compiler options
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I am making a game in C++ with Code::Blocks. I noticed that I was often getting bugs due to forgetting to return a value from a function, so I tried to make the compiler treat this as an error.
However, I can't figure out how to do it.
I tried putting -Werror=return-type under Other Options on the Build Options menu, but now it refuses to build at all.
-------------- Build: Debug in Pickory ---------------
mingw32-g++.exe -Wall -Werror=return-type -g -Wall -Wno-reorder -I..\Pickory -I..\zHeaders\BOX2D_21 -I..\zHeaders -IC:\ActiveProjects\zHeaders -c C:\ActiveProjects\Pickory\main.cpp -o obj\Debug\main.o
cc1plus.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-Werror=return-type"
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
0 errors, 0 warnings
There is no such option, try running cc1plus with --help to get possible options listed. Also, why aren't warnings enough? With -Wall switch surely there are warnings when there is no return value from a function.
Quote:Original post by Storyyeller
I am making a game in C++ with Code::Blocks. I noticed that I was often getting bugs due to forgetting to return a value from a function, so I tried to make the compiler treat this as an error.
However, I can't figure out how to do it.
I tried putting -Werror=return-type under Other Options on the Build Options menu, but now it refuses to build at all.
-------------- Build: Debug in Pickory ---------------
mingw32-g++.exe -Wall -Werror=return-type -g -Wall -Wno-reorder -I..\Pickory -I..\zHeaders\BOX2D_21 -I..\zHeaders -IC:\ActiveProjects\zHeaders -c C:\ActiveProjects\Pickory\main.cpp -o obj\Debug\main.o
cc1plus.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-Werror=return-type"
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
0 errors, 0 warnings
Code::Blocks is not a compiler, but an IDE that supports, beneath other, MinGW, which in turn is the windows port of GCC. Hence, you will find all supported command line options at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Invoking-GCC.html#Invoking-GCC, there you'll find Warning-Options, and then, there is "-Werror" to treat warnings as errors, and as mrjones mentioned, "-Wall" to enable all standard options. Then there is "-Wextra", to get even more warnings. And to be even surer, you can also use "-pedantic", to make it even more strict vs. ISO, and "-pedantic-errors", to emit errors for -pedantic related warnings.
Oh, and you can save yourself from hardcoding options:
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-Werror works, but I wanted to treat only one specific type of warning as an error.
So I tried to use the -Werror= option mentioned at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#Warning-Options but it didn't work.
I don't want it to treat all warnings as errors, because I am using Box2d, which has tons of spurious warnings in its headers, and I don't feel like rewriting the whole library myself.
So I tried to use the -Werror= option mentioned at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#Warning-Options but it didn't work.
Quote:
-Werror=
Make the specified warning into an error. The specifier for a warning is appended, for example -Werror=switch turns the warnings controlled by -Wswitch into errors. This switch takes a negative form, to be used to negate -Werror for specific warnings, for example -Wno-error=switch makes -Wswitch warnings not be errors, even when -Werror is in effect. You can use the -fdiagnostics-show-option option to have each controllable warning amended with the option which controls it, to determine what to use with this option.
I don't want it to treat all warnings as errors, because I am using Box2d, which has tons of spurious warnings in its headers, and I don't feel like rewriting the whole library myself.
I guess return-type is not about not returning from a function, but about misuse of the return-type, e.g. return .0f where the return type is actually int.
I don't know if you can disable/enable that mistake you look for in particular, but what is wrong with -Wall? It gives you a list of all warnings, which are there for a reason. Then, in case there are 159467821345 errors, you could still text-search the list.
I don't know if you can disable/enable that mistake you look for in particular, but what is wrong with -Wall? It gives you a list of all warnings, which are there for a reason. Then, in case there are 159467821345 errors, you could still text-search the list.
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Looking through hundreds of warnings every single time I make a change to the program is kind of a pain.
It would be so much simpler to get it to automatically stop the build process when it encounters certain warnings.
It would be so much simpler to get it to automatically stop the build process when it encounters certain warnings.
Quote:Original post by Storyyeller
Looking through hundreds of warnings every single time I make a change to the program is kind of a pain.
Quote:Original post by phresnel
Then, in case there are 159467821345 errors, you could still text-search the list.
Quote:It would be so much simpler to get it to automatically stop the build process when it encounters certain warnings.
While it seems you can enable/disable your particular warning wish, you can also -Werror -Wfatal-errors and fix warnings step by step.
Why exactly don't you want to fix all warnings? It is annoying, but something you should always do, if you are interested in good code (and good programmers are interested in good code :)).
edit: Ah, I was so wrong about return-type.
Test this snippet with -Werror=return-type -Wfatal-errors (== treat no return type as error, abort upon error)
#include <stdio.h>int u () { printf("%d", .5f); // will give you a format warning} // gives you an error for missing return, and stopsint v () { printf("%d", .5f); // nothing, compilation stopped already} // nothing, compilation stopped alreadyI also see now most of your warnings come from Box2d. In that case, there would be those pragmas, where you can nitpick-disable some warnings (#pragma ... #include ... #pragma):
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wformat"int u () { printf("%d", .5f); // nothing return 0;}#pragma GCC diagnostic enable "-Wformat"edit2: And there is -fdiagnostics-show-option, which will make gcc print the proper switch for each diagnostic it emits. You could use that option to see which warnings are produced by Box2d, and then disable them using above pragma.
[Edited by - phresnel on January 19, 2010 2:22:48 AM]
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