C99 usage in gcc

[Neil Booth]

Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > In 3.4 we permit the unmatched ' because of many complaints, so
> > perhaps we should conditionalize the // warnings on !skipping.
> > I'd be OK with that.
> 
> I'd be OK with that too.  I can think of cases where the meaning of
> the program silently changes but they're all pretty pathological.

With my proposal we're only changing the issuance of a diagnostic,
not semantics.

Neil.