Re: RFA: osabi.c correctness patch (Was: new build failure)

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> "Elena" == Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >
> > Elena> I wonder if we should enable ,-Werror by default on certain
> > Elena> platforms.
> >
> > I was under the impression that the maintainers used it regularly.
> > That's why I enabled it in my builds -- to avoid submitting
> > embarrassing patches in the future :-)
> 
> BTW, your warnings had me puzzled.  I'm building on 7.3, and wasn't
> seeing these!  It turns out that I wasn't using the pre-installed
> compiler :-(
> 
> Anyway, yes, maintainers should have -Werror enabled.  Unfortunatly, the
> best laid plans can occasionally fall down during the implementation stage.

I wonder if we could arrange some sort of makefile switch 
that would be on by default, but turned off by the release
process?