-std=c90 -pedantic-errors and <stdint.h>

[Toebs Douglass]

On 01/06/17 14:57, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2017-06-01 14:51:52 +0200, Toebs Douglass wrote:
>> On 01/06/17 14:45, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>> No, the goal of -pedantic-errors is not to be a portability checker or
>>> conformance tester.
>>>
>>> It's to disable standard-conflicting GNU extensions so that you get an
>>> error when the standard requires a diagnostic.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Thanks for that, Jonathan.
>>
>> I can't speak for others, but it clears things up for me.
> 
> No, that's definitely *not* clear! I'm still waiting the answer for
> the strings longer than the C90 limit.

Well, to be clear, I was only speaking for myself - I am really not
qualified to participate in this conversation (and should really have
restrained myself from posting, but I'm human :-)

What was in my mind was the description of the *intent* of the switch.
Although I may be wrong, I think it doesn't include the kind of check
being proposed here.  I think the check being proposed here *should*
exist, but not from this switch.