Re: error: "no newline at end of file"

["Manuel López-Ibáñez" <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>]

On 27/03/07, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 27 March 2007 16:07, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:
> >
> >> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> * Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com> [2007-03-27 13:13]:
> >>>> So if you are seeing this in C++, the change was intentional because
> >>>> PR24924 was fixed. If you are seeing it in C and you are not using
> >>>> pedantic-errors, then it is probably a bug.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the explanation - this explains what I'm seeing.  Is there
> >>> a good reason against changing this particular warning from
> >>> CPP_DL_PEDWARN to CPP_DL_WARNING?  Quite a few packages in Debian fail
> >>> to build because of this and it seems overly strict to me.  However, if
> >>> it'll remain an error with C++ code, I'll start filing bugs on these
> >>> packages.
> >>
> >> -pedantic asks for strict checking of rules.  User should accept
> >> correcting their codes (or used codes) with they ask for strict checking.
> >
> > I agree, but what is happening now is that "no newline at end of file"
> > is an error even when -pedantic is not specified.  I don't think that
> > is acceptable.
> >
> > Ian
>
>   I just stumbled across enhancement request PR14331, which is for this same feature.  I think I should update my old patch and submit it.

I still think that the best solution is to make the warning
conditional on the presence of an explicit "-pedantic" at the
command-line.

Cheers,

Manuel.