On 1 April 2014 15:00, Daniel Gutson wrote: >> For regressions, yes, but I don't think this is a regression. > > Why not? (I don't know the criteria, please let me know).
Did it work in previous versions? A regression means something that used to work no longer works. > Upcoming Ubuntu LTS will have g++ 4.8.2, having this fixed will be > extremely useful. It's not up to me, but personally I'd say it's a low priority fix. If a user doesn't want the warning then they should not use -pedantic. If they need to use -pedantic then they shouldn't be using conditionally-supported casts. >>> Regarding 4.9, gcc fails to complain at all when -pedantic is passed, >>> even specifying -std=c++03. >>> Please let me know if this is truly a bug, in which case I could also >>> fix it for the latest version as well >> >> I believe it's by design. The C++11 standard says in > > So what about -std=c++03 or earlier standards? As I said, G++ has always supported it, in any standard mode. If you don't want the warning issued by previous versions then don't use -pedantic. > BTW, shouldn't 4.8 be fixed accordingly for C++11 as well? Maybe, maybe not. There's always a risk making changes to stable releases, so new features or low priority fixes are not always backported. This particular one might be safe, but I don't know.
