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Re: strict_prototypes_lang_c
>>>>> "Gavin" == Gavin Romig-Koch <gavin@cygnus.com> writes:
Gavin> I think it's a mistake to decide to define "what's on by
Gavin> default in gcc" as a superset of ANSI/ISO features. In the
But I don't. So, perhaps you'd better explain what you mean a bit
more fully.
But, perhaps the problem is that implicit in my statements was "for
C++". In C, there is a much wider installed base of users, and there
are backward-compatibility concerns.
In C++, all the users I've talked to would like ANSI/ISO C++. They
might also like some extensions, but I don't think they want any
ANSI/ISO C++ programs to not work.
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