Re: [using gcc book] ch3.8 options to request or suppress warnings

[Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox dot com>]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jim Wilson wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:14, Chris Devers wrote:
> > I think so, but feel free to correct me -- and *fast*, if you please:
>
> I've got the flu, or something equivalently bad, so I can't be fast at
> this time.

Sorry to have been pushy about it, but if there were any egregious errors
there isn't much time to get the corrections in.

> There are some things that aren't pedantically correct, but which won't
> cause any confusion, so there is no point complaining about them at this
> time.

This seems to be typical of much of the manuscript... :-/

> There is one thing here that bothers me though.  In md.texi we have "An
> emumerated class is defined".  This is potentially confusing because
> "class" has a meaning in C++.  This should be "An enumeration is
> defined".  "enumerated type" would probably also work here.  (In current
> unpatched sources, this says "An enumeral class is defined" which is
> even worse.)

I remember the line in question.  I've fixed my version, and will find out
if the submitted draft can be still be amended.

Thanks for the feedback.


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