On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Steven Bosscher wrote: > >> Is it valid in dialects older than C99 to declare a function static >> inline after calling it? Should the warnings be brought back in the >> compiler? > > Older dialects didn't have inline.
Not even gnu89? >> One reason to bring the warnings back could be that there is now no >> way for anyone bootstrapping GCC to detect this warning. If it is >> still a goal that recently modern GCC's should be able to build the >> latest GCC, then it would be good if the latest GCC warns about the >> same things in a given C dialect as older GCC versions do. > > Building with older GCC should not use -Werror; only later bootstrap > stages, or --enable-werror-always, should do so, and > --enable-werror-always is meant to be used for building a cross-compiler > using the same version of GCC. Hm, I didn't do anything special. Just configure --target=arm-eabi, then make. Perhaps there is an error in configure.ac. Ciao! Steven
