egcs-980129, fixed ambiguous `else' warnings in the gcc/f/ dir.

Bernd Schmidt crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Fri Feb 13 10:31:00 GMT 1998


>  > On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:30:19PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > >       Is it a bug or a feature?  Ie, is it good coding style to not
>  > > use braces even if the if-then-else tree is full?
>  >  
>  > Coding style aside, the warning tells you that it is ambiguous when
>  > it is not.  If the tree is full, there is exactly one way it can be
>  > parsed.  Thus, a bug, IMO.
>  > r~
> 
> 	Okay, then we should leave in all of them until its fixed.  That
> way when the fix is in, we see that the ones that should be noisy are
> still there and the ones that should be quiet are gone. 
> 
> 	Is anyone (the original author) working on this?

I'll submit a fix for this on Monday.

Bernd



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