Re: Patch to implement C99 flexible array member constraints

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

| On 17 Aug 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > | This is following the style of the surrounding code (some of which you
| > | quoted). 
| > 
| > This is not a style issue.  
| > Around the same code, you'll notice use of pedwarn(), so -not- using
| > pedwarn_with_decl() in new code should not be an issue.
| 
| The universal current style in the C front end is that none of the
| diagnostic features you mention (specifiers such as %D and %H) are used.  

Why do you keep talking of style while it is not?

And codes in the C front-end do use %D.

[...]

| I see no sign that stage 3 has in fact yet started;

However it was agreed that it starts on 15th.

| though the tentative
| date has passed, the web page still says stage 2 is in progress,

IMO, web page is not all about it -- and you do know that our web-page
maintainer is away; that doesn't mean that something he didn't have
the time to put there doesn't happen.  

| and there
| hasn't yet been an announcement to say that stage 3 has started.

However, message was sent this week saying that stage 3 will begin on 15th.

| And in any case you seem to be saying that use of the _with_decl
| versions is a bug.

No, you missed the point.  I said no new code should use _with_decl --
and indeed, I consider new code introducing that and insisting on it
to be a bug. 

| Repeating is hardly good as documentation (nor are list messages;
| documentation should be in CVS, editable and updatable).

One of the purposes of an archived list is also to complete
documentation. 

-- Gaby