problem with Apple's customised gcc compiler

[Eljay Love-Jensen]

Hi Tony,

Both as C and C++ the code returned a warning for me.

Using Apple's GCC 3.3 20030304 Build 1495.

gcc -c bug.c

g++ -c bug.cpp

 >Is there a known bug in the above compiler that caused this?

Would you retry compiling your code snippet.  Since it generated a warning 
for me, I'm surprised / concerned.

 >Or could there be some other problem that causes the compiler to behave 
like this?

Do you have warnings suppressed?  What was your command line?

 >Could it be that the compiler optimised away some code and over looked 
this error?

No.

 >Is there any compiler options that could enforce this error checking?

g++ -pedantic -Werror -Wall -W -c bug.cpp

 >One last unrelated question, can I use the true gcc compiler (not apple's 
customised version) on a mac?

Do you merely want to run your code at the Darwin level?  Then yes.

HTH,
--Eljay