new fails on gcc 3.4, i686-unknown-openbsd3.1

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Sat Dec 28 18:18:00 GMT 2002


This may be a duplicate reply; some mail weirdness here.

> Nevertheless, I think it's a mistake to outright reject programs that
> contain such gratuitous semicolons.  Given the number of occurrences
> of such constructs in testcases and GCC's libraries, it's obvious that
> a lot of code out there will be gratuitously (?) broken by this
> change.

I agree, and the new parser (I think) accepts this construct when not
pedantic.  There may be more places where we need to add the leniency
for this; it's certainly something we should accept when not being
pedantic.

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