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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ generally likely to indicate bugs in your program. These are:
* :ghc-flag:`-Wdeprecated-flags`
* :ghc-flag:`-Wunrecognised-pragmas`
* :ghc-flag:`-Wduplicate-exports`
+ * :ghc-flag:`-Wderiving-defaults`
* :ghc-flag:`-Woverflowed-literals`
* :ghc-flag:`-Wempty-enumerations`
* :ghc-flag:`-Wmissing-fields`
@@ -640,6 +641,23 @@ of ``-W(no-)*``.
Causes a warning to be emitted if an enumeration is empty, e.g.
``[5 .. 3]``.
+.. ghc-flag:: -Wderiving-defaults
+ :shortdesc: warn about default deriving when using both
+ DeriveAnyClass and GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving
+ :type: dynamic
+ :reverse: -Wno-deriving-defaults
+ :category:
+
+ :since: 8.10
+
+ Causes a warning when both :ref:`DeriveAnyClass` and
+ :ref:`GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving` are enabled and no explicit
+ deriving strategy is in use. For example, this would result a
+ warning: ::
+
+ class C a
+ newtype T a = MkT a deriving C
+
.. ghc-flag:: -Wduplicate-constraints
:shortdesc: warn when a constraint appears duplicated in a type signature
:type: dynamic