diff --git a/doc/xml/release.xml b/doc/xml/release.xml
index 5b226b7fe..3f6888ac6 100644
--- a/doc/xml/release.xml
+++ b/doc/xml/release.xml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
                     </release-item>
 
                     <release-item>
-                        <p>Enable <id>-Wstrict-prototypes</id> and update all void functions to conform.</p>
+                        <p>Enable <id>-Wstrict-prototypes</id> and <id>-Wpointer-arith</id> and update code to conform.</p>
                     </release-item>
 
                     <release-item>
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 24a9ade67..1d02e2143 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ CINCLUDE = -I. -I../libc
 
 # Compile warnings
 CWARN = -Wfatal-errors -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch-enum -Wconversion -Wformat=2 -Wformat-nonliteral \
-		-Wno-clobbered -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wstrict-prototypes
+		-Wno-clobbered -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
 
 # Automatically generate Perl compile options for the local system
 CPERL = `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts`
diff --git a/test/lib/pgBackRestTest/Common/JobTest.pm b/test/lib/pgBackRestTest/Common/JobTest.pm
index 0bb892522..343177510 100644
--- a/test/lib/pgBackRestTest/Common/JobTest.pm
+++ b/test/lib/pgBackRestTest/Common/JobTest.pm
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ sub run
                     # ($self->{oTest}->{&TEST_VM} ne VM_CO6 && $self->{oTest}->{&TEST_VM} ne VM_U12 &&
                     #     $self->{oTest}->{&TEST_MODULE} ne 'perl' && $self->{oTest}->{&TEST_NAME} ne 'exec' ?
                     #         "       -Wpedantic \\\n" : '') .
-                    "       -Wformat=2 -Wformat-nonliteral -Wstrict-prototypes\\\n" .
+                    "       -Wformat=2 -Wformat-nonliteral -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith\\\n" .
                     "       `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts`\n" .
                     "LDFLAGS=-lcrypto" . (vmCoverage($self->{oTest}->{&TEST_VM}) && $self->{bCoverageUnit} ? " -lgcov" : '') .
                         (vmWithBackTrace($self->{oTest}->{&TEST_VM}) && $self->{bBackTrace} ? ' -lbacktrace' : '') .