Patch to avoid "string length > minimum length" warnings for C++

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Fri Nov 3 10:55:00 GMT 2000


The consensus seems to be that these warnings aren't valid/useful in
C++.  (I decided they also weren't useful in ObjC.)  Okay to install?

		--Kaveh



2000-11-02  Kaveh R. Ghazi  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>

	* c-common.c (combine_strings): Only warn about long strings for C.

diff -rup orig/egcs-CVS20001102/gcc/c-common.c egcs-CVS20001102/gcc/c-common.c
--- orig/egcs-CVS20001102/gcc/c-common.c	Thu Nov  2 21:44:31 2000
+++ egcs-CVS20001102/gcc/c-common.c	Thu Nov  2 22:06:00 2000
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ combine_strings (strings)
   /* Compute the number of elements, for the array type.  */
   nchars = wide_flag ? length / wchar_bytes : length;
 
-  if (pedantic && nchars > nchars_max)
+  if (pedantic && nchars > nchars_max && c_language == clk_c)
     pedwarn ("string length `%d' is greater than the minimum length `%d' ISO C%d is required to support",
 	     nchars, nchars_max, flag_isoc99 ? 99 : 89);
 


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