Re: Why does -pedantic make long long an error in C++?

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:12, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:29:52PM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > I found an email from you that says the opposite (back in 1993 when 
> > 2.95 was not even being thought of):
> > <http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/364/1993/4/0/2055267/>
> 
> Ah, but I was young and stupid then. :-)

I think Jason was the architect of most of this code, but I could be
wrong.

Before my patch, -pedantic issued *warnings* where the compiler would
issue *errors* without -pedantic.  In other words, -pedantic made the
compiler *less strict*.

The C++ front end has for some time treated "pedwarn" as equivalent to
"error" -- unless you say "-fpermissive".  The C front end doesn't have
this "-fpermissive" thing, and "pedwarn" is just a warning, unless you
say "-pedantic-errors".

In other words, the C++ front end is in "-pedantic-errors" mode by
default.

This level of complexity seems far more than necessary to me, but that
is how it is.

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