Strange pedantic error message

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Feb-2001, dewar@gnat.com <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> <<On the contrary, compiling with `-pedantic' is usually a good idea,
> despite what the gcc documentation says.
> >>
> 
> That's far too strong. It is a good idea IF you want help in trying to
> be sure that your code will be portable to other compilers than GCC, but
> if this is not of interest, then there is no reason to use the switch.

It is usually a good idea to try to make sure that your code will be
portable to compilers other than GCC.

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