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

David Brown david@westcontrol.com
Thu Jun 1 13:08:00 GMT 2017


On 01/06/17 14:55, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2017-06-01 13:45:07 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 1 June 2017 at 12:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> The goal of -pedantic-errors is to *detect* that the developer writes
>>> something like the above instead of just:
>>>
>>> #include <stdint.h>
>>
>> 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.
> 
> What??? Strings longer than the C90 limit are certainly not
> GNU extensions!!!
> 

To be consistent, the -Woverlength-strings warning should be removed :-)




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