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Re: Changes in C++ FE regarding pedwarns to be errors are harmful
Tuesday 08 January 2008 23:34:13 tarihinde Joe Buck ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> There's certainly an argument that this change is ill-advised. ÂHowever,
> your statements in the last paragraph aren't true: most quality open
> source projects have a "no warnings" rule (or at least try to eliminate
> warnings), and most programmers know about #undef.
Interesting assumption because knowing about #undef doesn't cut it because
autoconf will happily #define without ifndef etc.
> Since people have already built whole distros with the gcc from the trunk,
> clearly theyare managing to build C++ applications that use
> Python,libmp4v2, libjpeg etc.
Yes true because they use -fpermissive which will let this error into a
warning, which also suggests this change is not good.
Regards,
ismail
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