IMA corner case with forward declarations of statics

[Dale Johannesen]

On Jun 24, 2004, at 9:28 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2004, at 9:22 PM, Dale Johannesen wrote:
>> It is not "just for the sake of it", it is so that C programs which 
>> have worked for
>> the last 10 years or so will continue to work, only faster.
>>
>> I agree that a warning is a good idea, and I'm willing to believe an 
>> error would
>> be better in C++.
>
> But C (the ISO standard) defines functions as having compatible types 
> otherwise
> it is undefined so having it an error by default and be able to turn 
> it to warning is
> okay in my book (something like -permissive in C++).

I could live with that, although I think most C users would prefer the 
default
to be reversed.