Warnings in the C++ Front-End and GCC in General

Craig Burley burley@gnu.org
Wed Sep 9 20:50:00 GMT 1998


>     Everything can be abused. I hope you will not be swayed by the
>argument that if you provide the feature the user base will abuse it.

It is an abuse of our collective role as purveyors of dialects of
languages like C, C++, Fortran, and so on to extend those dialects
to incorporate information on compiler internals without an
*incredibly* persuasive reason to do so.

If we commit such abuses, the user base will get its revenge.

        tq vm, (burley)



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