[Bug c++/12479] System header should not cause -pedantic to error about "extra `;'"

[gdr at integrable-solutions dot net]

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------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2003-10-01 19:19 -------
Subject: Re:  System header should not cause -pedantic to error about "extra `;'"

"zack at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| | Probably.  The -pedantic can turn pedwarns into errors.  We've had
| | that behaviour for ages.
| 
| ... and it is a (long-standing) bug.  That's only for -pedantic-errors to do.

The last time this has been discussed, my recollection is that the
intended (and actual) behaviour is that -pedantic can turn some
warnings into errors. 

The reason is that by default we may be lenient about some constructs
and/or just warn.  But if -pedantic then we may reject such codes because
of them violating some standard text requirements.  

The latent bug is that the documentation does not reflect that
intended and actual behaviour. 

| | Not in the C++ front-end.  That also has been debated to death.
| 
| I'm not as familiar with the history there, but surely you agree
| that options like -pedantic should do the same thing in all front ends.

I think -pedantic is front-end dependent just like -ansi.

-- Gaby