> On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:14 PM, Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2023, Qing Zhao via Gcc-patches wrote:
>
>> +Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end
>> +C C++ Var(warn_variable_sized_type_not_at_end) Warning
>> +Warn about structures or unions with C99 flexible array members are not
>> +at the end of a structure.
>
> I think there's at least one word missing here, e.g. "that" before "are".
Will fix it.
>
>> +Please use warning option @option{-Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end} to
>> +identify all such cases in the source code and modify them. This extension
>> +will be deprecated from gcc in the next release.
>
> We don't generally say "in the next release" in the manual (or "deprecated
> from gcc"). Maybe it *is* deprecated, maybe it will be *removed*, or will
> *start to warn by default*, in some specified version number (giving a
> version number seems better than "next release"), but "will be deprecated"
> is odd.
How about the following:
+Please use warning option @option{-Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end} to
+identify all such cases in the source code and modify them. This warning will
be
+ on by default starting from GCC14.
Thanks.
Qing
>
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