[Bug c++/15049] [3.5 Regression] [DR 278/132/216/338/389/319] global variables with anonymous types are legal

["austern at apple dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From austern at apple dot com  2004-07-22 21:15 -------
There's no mystery about the cause of this behavior.  It's in cp/decl.c:
	  if (TYPE_ANONYMOUS_P (t))
	    {
	      if (DECL_EXTERN_C_P (decl))
		/* Allow this; it's pretty common in C.  */;
	      else
		{
		  pedwarn ("non-local variable `%#D' uses anonymous type",
			   decl);
		  if (DECL_ORIGINAL_TYPE (TYPE_NAME (t)))
		    cp_pedwarn_at ("\
`%#D' does not refer to the unqualified type, so it is not used for linkage",
				   TYPE_NAME (t));
		}
	    }
	  else
	    pedwarn ("non-local variable `%#D' uses local type `%T'",
			decl, t);
cvs annotate shows that this is a change the Geoff made on 04-Mar-04.

The only question is what to do about this change.  Having read the relevant parts of C++03 standard 
and looked at all relevant CWG issues, I believe that 
  struct { int x; } my_global;
is dubious but legal C++.  ("Dubious" becuase I think it's likely to become illegal in some future 
standard.)

So I believe the right solution is to change that first pedwarn to a warning.

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