Undetected error in array declarations...

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec  3, 1998, Mike Simons <msimons@fsimons01.erols.com> wrote:

>   To get as close as possible to ANSI in addition to most useful 
> warnings, the correct flags would be "-Wall -W -pedantic -ansi". 

Yep

>   However, I think there is a bug in this attitude:

>   To a certain extent I think the attitude "take advantage of our 
> extensions and disregard other products" is bad.

I coulnd't agree more.  Would anybody mind if I rewrote this paragraph
so as to say that we would appreciate bug reports containing code
snippets for which ANSI/ISO C requires diagnostics but `gcc -W -Wall
-ansi -pedantic' doesn't complain?

> I think that extensions that silently creep in are evil.

Not if they're widely used in the only C library available for the
platform :-)

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil