On 27 May 2016 at 17:46, Jason Merrill <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > OK, thanks.
Should this fix be backported to the gcc6-branch? I have no plans to backport it any further than that. > > Jason > > > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Ville Voutilainen > <ville.voutilai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 20 May 2016 at 07:05, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilai...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On 19 May 2016 at 19:40, Jason Merrill <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> Any thoughts on doing something similar for extern variable declarations? >>> >>> Ah, we diagnose local extern variable declarations that clash with >>> previous declarations, >>> but we don't diagnose cases where a subsequent declaration clashes >>> with a previous >>> local extern declaration. I'll take a look. >> >> As discussed on irc, this requires teaching variable declarations to >> work with DECL_ANTICIPATED >> and is thus some amounts of surgery, so the recommendation was to go >> ahead with this patch. >> I added a comment to the new code block, an updated patch attached. >> Changelog as before. >> Ok for trunk?
