cpplib and a couple others: squelch -pedantic warnings

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:41:04PM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > From: Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org>
>  > > 
>  > > What bothers you, that we write anything at all or that I overloaded
>  > > the __extension__ keyword?
>  > 
>  > I don't like having to write anything at all, but if we do have to
>  > write something it definitely shouldn't be __extension__.
>  > __extension__ is to shut it up about extensions, and no more.
> 
> Okay, I agree __extension__ was a bad choice.  My aim in using it was
> to avoid having to change the parser and introduce ansidecl.h hackery
> and incrementing the MINOR number to 97 to detect when this feature
> was added.

You might want to consider if this is truly worth it.

>  > I'd put up with freeconst(foo) or free(const_cast<char *> foo) or
> 
> Well Mark pointed out that freeconst() has the problem of silently
> accepting freeconst("foo").

... and so does free((char *) "foo").  I don't think this is a real
problem.  Yeah, you have to wait to runtime for it to crash, but it's
a nice deterministic crash.

zw