Re: formats and syslog question

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

Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:

| On 14-Sep-2002, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
| > Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> writes:
| > | Same is true for C++, where -pedantic-errors is the default,
| > 
| > I don't think that is true.
| 
| The GCC 3.2 documentation for -fpermissive says that it is:
| 
|  | `-fpermissive'
|  |      Downgrade messages about nonconformant code from errors to
|  |      warnings.  By default, G++ effectively sets `-pedantic-errors'
|  |      without `-pedantic'; this option reverses that.  This behavior and
|  |      this option are superseded by `-pedantic', which works as it does
|  |      for GNU C.

This doesn't make sense.  What -pedantic-errors does is to turn
warnings generated by -pedantic into errors.

   @item -pedantic-errors
   @opindex pedantic-errors
   Like @option{-pedantic}, except that errors are produced rather than
   warnings.

Therefore, if -pedantic-errors is set then -pedantic is set except that
what should be warnings are reported as errors.

So, the documention of -fpermissive is incorrect and inconsistent with
the rest of the documentation.

| So if it's not, then the behaviour doesn't match the documentation,
| and IMHO the best way to fix it would be to change the behaviour
| so that -pedantic-errors really is the default.

In this case, it is the documentation of -fpermissive that doesn't
match behaviour.  I'm not sure the best way to fix it is that you're
proposing.  What you're proposing doesn't reflect the current
behaviour. 

-- Gaby