------- Comment #5 from bangerth at gmail dot com 2010-03-08 04:26 -------
What I'm saying is that this entire discussion is already present in PR13687
and that there is nothing more to say. The warning exists in C because it
can lead to hard-to-find bugs in C code because you can call a function
without a prototype in C. You can't do that in C++, and on top of that you
can overload functions in C++ which makes it impossible to determine for a
compiler whether a prototype matches a definition.
Warnings are not generally meant to make programming simpler (as in the case
you are making) but to warn about cases that can lead the compiler to generate
code that may not have been intended that way but that compiles cleanly
anyway.
This isn't the case here, and the community has decided in PR 13687 that it
doesn't want to support this feature in C++.
W.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13687 ***
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bangerth at gmail dot com changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |DUPLICATE
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43272
