[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  2003-10-02 01:59 -------
Subject: Re:  System header should not cause -pedantic to error about "extra `;'"

"levon at movementarian dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
| The problem was originally with /usr/include/malloc.h. Is that not a system header ?

I can't tell.  

| Anyway, you didn't really answer my question in comment 13, namely whether
| you consider it sensible to only allow these two states :
| 
| 1) no mention at all of the problem
| 2) error + rejection
| 
| which is the current state of CVS HEAD.

I think that particular construct is harmless enough so that the error
should probably be warning in regular contexts, ignored if
-Wno-sys-headers (or whatever that option is spelled), and an error if
-pedantic (except in system headers unless -Wsys-headers). 

-- Gaby