Re: formats and syslog question

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

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

| On 14 Sep 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > |  | `-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 |  |      this option are superseded by `-pedantic', which works as it does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.
| 
| The intended meaning of this documentation is of course that mandatory
| pedwarns are errors by default for C++.  The problem is how to express
| clearly to the user four classes of warnings with respect to -pedantic,
| mandatory warning()s, mandatory pedwarn()s, pedwarn()s if pedantic and
| warning()s if pedantic, all four of which occur.

OK, but at least the current wording is confusing since specifying
-pedantic-errors doesn't give the same behaviour as the default.

-- Gaby