DR handling for C++

[Mark Mitchell]

Matt Austern wrote:

> Isn't the fundamental problem that we're using pedwarns differently in 
> the C and C++ front ends?  In the C front end you don't even see 
> pedwarns unless you use a special compiler flag, and making them into 
> errors requires an even more special compiler flag.  It's very odd 
> that it means something so different in the C++ front end.
>
> This is really going off into a different subject (pedwarn policy, not 
> DR policy), but I'd suggest that we:
>  1. Change the C++ front end's pedwarn defaults to match the C front 
> end's policy.
>  2. Remove -fpermissive, which #1 will render redundant.
>  3. Go through our pedwarns and decide which ones should be errors, 
> which ones should be warnings, and which ones really should just be 
> pedwarns. 

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to suggest.

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