RFR 8009517: Disable fatal compiler warning in the old build

[Mike Duigou]

On Mar 8 2013, at 07:56 , Alan Bateman wrote:

> On 08/03/2013 15:49, Mike Duigou wrote:
>> Looks fine to me. Do we have an issue open for restoring warnings to the new build?
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
> I don't know if there is an issue for that yet but as the new build compiles thousands of classes in a single compilation unit then it means we will need to make significant inroads on the warnings before more can be enabled. The approach with the old build was by area and good progress had been made but with the new build, then it may have to be by warning type as all areas are compiled together.

Understood. Perhaps we can at least use JDK_FILTER incrementally. Do we have a way to override the warnings used by the makefile?

Any thoughts towards perhaps disabling -Werror but enabling all of the warnings?

Mike