Question about option -fpermissive

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On 29 Jun 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> #undef CC1PLUS_SPEC
>> #define CC1PLUS_SPEC "%{!fno-permissive:-fpermissive}"
> It might be nice to mention this trick somewhere in the FAQ.
> Ok to install?

Yes. (Unless any of the C++ or global maintainers objects.)

>From an educational point of view it might be preferrable forcing users
with broken headers/sources to use -fpermissive each and every time
instead of painting over the issue.

Gerald

PS: I nearly missed that patch. Perhaps we should introduce a convention
of mentioning "PATCH: *.html", "FAQ" or "Web" in all web related patches?
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/