On 12/01/2008, Manuel López-Ibáñez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is an initial patch implementing some of your proposals. I used > pederror as the name of the function. That is, it is an error unless > fpermissive is given.
Ah, very fast! :-) I was just starting somethign similar, I provisionally used the name permerror, with this comment: /* A conformance error: issues an error unless -fpermissive was given on the command line, in which case it issues a warning. Use this for diagnostics required by the relevant language standard, but which need to be downgradable for non-conformant code. */ void permerror (const char *gmsgid, ...) I don't think the name should involve "ped" or pedantic, since it's not related to -pedantic, the semantics are those described by the -fpermissive docs: -fpermissive Downgrade some diagnostics about nonconformant code from errors to warnings. Thus, using -fpermissive will allow some nonconforming code to compile. These errors should be independent of -pedantic* unless the if (pedantic) check is also present in the code, but that's a special case. Have I understood the intention correctly? I think the name matters, otherwise you will have to write more long mails explaining why the semantics don't match the name :-) (thanks for those mails btw, they helped me a lot) I don't really like the name permerror either though, relaxable_error is accurate but not great either. Thanks for doing this - I agree with your other decisions about what should be a pedward or a pederror/whatever in e.g. lex.c and parser.c Jon