+# flag checks are grouped together to speed the checks up a bit..
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wall -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings,)
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes,)
+# If you want to add "-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations" above
+# (or anything else for that matter) make sure that it is still possible
+# to build bbox without warnings. Current offender: find.c:alloc_action().
+# Looks more like gcc bug: gcc will warn on it with or without prototype.
+# But still, warning-free compile is a must, or else we will drown
+# in warnings pretty soon.
+
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_WERROR),y)
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror,)
+else
+# for development, warn a little bit about unused results..
+CPPFLAGS += -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
+endif
+# gcc 3.x emits bogus "old style proto" warning on find.c:alloc_action()
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-ifversion, -ge, 0400, -Wold-style-definition)
+
+# gcc emits bogus "no prev proto" warning on find.c:alloc_action()
+ifneq ($(CONFIG_WERROR),y)
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations,)
+endif
+
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Os -fno-builtin-strlen -finline-limit=0 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,)
+# -fno-guess-branch-probability: prohibit pseudo-random guessing
+# of branch probabilities (hopefully makes bloatcheck more stable):
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-guess-branch-probability,)
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-funsigned-char -static-libgcc,)
+CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-falign-functions=1 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-labels=1 -falign-loops=1,)
+
+# FIXME: These warnings are at least partially to be concerned about and should
+# be fixed..
+#CFLAGS+=$(call cc-option,-Wconversion,)