On 01/11/2018 12:10 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:41:19AM -0700, Martin Sebor wrote:
>> Declaring a function without a prototype has been deprecated
>> for nearly two decades (since C99) and may be removed from
>> the C language in C2X. To prompt programs to transition to
>> the more modern and safer style, PR 82922 requests to enable
>> Wstrict-prototypes in -Wextra.
>
> Does it really warn for
>
> int
> main ()
> {
> ...
> }
>
> ? main isn't called from C code, there is no reason why it should
> use prototypes. In the testsuite we have over 5000 C tests that do
> something like that.
>
> Furthermore, this should have been suggested in stage1, not 3 days before
> end of stage3 IMNSHO.
Given the scope of the behavior change, let's push this out to the next
stage1.
Jeff
