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Re: cpplib: Start moving switch handling to front ends
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Cc: Devang Patel <dpatel at apple dot com>, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>, Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:07:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: cpplib: Start moving switch handling to front ends
- References: <8F40CC42-AAF6-11D6-A6B4-00039362EF82@apple.com> <3D52B166.6020404@apple.com>
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:59:02AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > Personally I do not have hard opinion about this, but I have not seen
> > any guide-lines about use of special chars like '#' in warning names.
> >
> > If everybody thinks, it is not OK then I will change it to
> > -Wno-pound-warnings.
>
> "pound" is somewhat cultural - I think of the char as "sharp" (musical),
> and H-P called it "hash". If we do this, we should use terminology from
> the language definition and call it -Wno-warning-directives.
-Wno-octothorpe-warnings, then, if you really want to be precise. :-)
Phil
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