c++/5089: -Wold-style-cast warns about cast to void

[Jeffrey Turner]

The following reply was made to PR c++/5089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeffrey Turner" <jturner@mail.alum.rpi.edu>
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Subject: Re: c++/5089: -Wold-style-cast warns about cast to void
Date: Wed,  2 Jan 2002 14:02:59 -0500

 >Synopsis: -Wold-style-cast warns about cast to void
 >
 >State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed
 >State-Changed-By: nathan
 >State-Changed-When: Wed Jan  2 05:59:02 2002
 >State-Changed-Why:
 >    2002-01-02  Nathan Sidwell  <nathan@codesourcery.com>
 >    
 >    	PR c++/5089
 >    	* doc/invoke.texi (-Wold-style-cast): Only warn about non-void casts.
 >    
 >    2002-01-02  Nathan Sidwell  <nathan@codesourcery.com>
 >    
 >    	PR c++/5089
 >    	* decl2.c (reparse_absdcl_as_casts): Don't warn about casts to void.
 
 I still think this is a mistake.  If I want to be warned
 about old-style casts then the compiler should _always_
 oblige.  It should be up to the programmer whether or not
 to ignore compiler warnings.  That was the premise of C.
 I still think it's valid to let the programmer decide
 rather than the stupid compiler.  How else will we catch
 all the archaic code that hopefully should be eliminated?
 
 --Jeff Turner
 
 Who put the Sam in the "'Sama Laden Ding-Dong"?