GCC

Compiling C and C++ code with the highest warning levels is a good practice and helps spotting potential errors. For GCC the flags -Wall -Wextra will generate a lot of useful warning messages about unused parameters etc. Unfortunately, this is not the common practice and often the own compiler settings concerning the warning level results in dozens of warnings from system headers on which the own code relies, making it impossible to spot warnings from your own code in the endless mass of console output. ...