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Re: Compiling GCC with g++: a report
> > unrestricted use of C++ keywords; declaring structure fields with
> > the same name as a structure tag in scope.
>
> I don't think we should be reverting patches that fall afoul of these
> last two, even if they break Gaby's build-with-a-C++-compiler
> builds. But, I would tend to accept patches from Gaby to fix such
> problems.
This reminds me of the last time we were coding to two C-family
variants, named K&R vs ISO. I had improved -Wtraditional to the point
where it caught most problems, and we had macros (PARAMS, etc) to
cover most other cases.
Now we have e.g. XNEW* and all we need is a new -W* flag to catch
things like using C++ keywords and it should be fairly automatic to
keep incompatibilities out of the sources. IMHO Gaby should volunteer
to write the new -W flag, it'll be easier for him than fixing breakage
after the fact.
--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu