On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Steven Bosscher wrote: > 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?
Well, what's valid there is what the compiler accepts. This is unrelated to the way in which gnu89 inline semantics differ from C99, so I see no reason to reject it. > > 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. There must be. -Werror builds like that simply won't work, because of the internal diagnostic formats that 4.3's format checking doesn't understand. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
