Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > "Manuel López-Ibáñez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Of course there is a third option: >> >> * Make pedwarns warnings by default unless -Werror or >> --pedantic-errors are given (just like the C front-end). > > This makes sense to me. I have never understood why it is a good idea > for the C++ and C frontends to differ in this way.
I think Jason's input would be helpful. I remember having a discussion about this years ago (1998?), but I don't remember the complete rationale. I think the idea was that we wanted many of these things (ugly old ARM-era C++ things) to be errors, but didn't want to make it impossible to compile old code. They're not "pedantic" in the sense that you only care if you're trying extremely hard to be ISO-conformant; they're things no sane C++ programmer would do at this point, but we want to support for legacy C++ code. I don't see any a priori problem with changing to match the C front end. We could of course change some of the pedwarns into errors if we really think they ought to be errors. Or, some of them could be ordinary warnings when not -pednatic, and pedwarns when -pedantic. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713
