-pedantic and typename

Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Mar 6 14:04:00 GMT 1998


On 6 Mar 1998, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> [...] -pedantic and -ansi both try to have a compiler that is as
> much ANSI/ISO C++ compliant as possible. 
>>  Should the docs be updated in this direction?
> I think so.

How about the following? Jeff?


Fri Mar  6 22:59:39 1998  Gerald Pfeifer  <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

	* gcc.info-2: Option -pedantic also enforces stronger compliance
	with ISO C++.

--- gcc.info-2.orig	Fri Mar  6 22:30:23 1998
+++ gcc.info-2	Fri Mar  6 22:36:54 1998
@@ -341,14 +341,14 @@
      that.
 
 `-pedantic'
-     Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ANSI standard C; reject
-     all programs that use forbidden extensions.
+     Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ANSI C resp. ISO C++; 
+     reject all programs that use forbidden extensions.
 
-     Valid ANSI standard C programs should compile properly with or
-     without this option (though a rare few will require `-ansi').
+     Valid ANSI C resp. ISO C++ programs should compile properly with
+     or without this option (though a rare few will require `-ansi').
      However, without this option, certain GNU extensions and
-     traditional C features are supported as well.  With this option,
-     they are rejected.
+     traditional C resp. C++ features are supported as well.  With
+     this option, they are rejected.
 
      `-pedantic' does not cause warning messages for use of the
      alternate keywords whose names begin and end with `__'.  Pedantic




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