Scott Robert Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> Scott Robert Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> | Then, as someone else said, why doesn't the compiler enforce -ansi >> | and/or -pedantic by default? >> Care submitting a ptach? > Would a strictly ansi default be accepted on principle? Given the > existing code base of non-standard code, such a change may be unrealistic. -ansi introduces strict namespace support in C, which then introduces all sorts of portability issues and ends up being impractical for a lot of real-world, cross-platform code that already uses facilities like Autoconf, unless one wants to spend a lot of time tracking down issues that really don't improve the code quality. I used to try to use -ansi in warnings builds and gave up even on that. -pedantic is significantly more useful in practice than -ansi is. It's really obnoxious to have to define some preprocessor variable just to be able to get an fdopen() prototype out of <stdio.h>, even if I can see how it would be theoretically useful. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
