Po Lu via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This discussion thread is about having very good technical reasons -- as
>> explained multiple times, including instances where you agreed that the
>> technical reasons were good.
>>
>> Furthermore, even despite those technical reasons, GCC is *still*
>> committed to not breaking those old programs anyway. GCC merely wants to
>> make those old programs have to be compiled in an "old-programs" mode.
>>
>> Can you explain to me how you think this goal conflicts with your goal?
>
> Because now people will have to go through dozens and dozens of
> Makefiles, configure.in, *.m4, just because GCC made a decision that
> results in everyone inserting:
>
>   extern int foo ();
>
> above what used to be implicit function declarations?

In addition to Jason's point about just setting CC, I'd also expect
there to be a few centralised places where the flags are set in most
projects anyway.

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