Compiling GCC with g++: a report

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Wed May 25 13:38:00 GMT 2005


 > > Now we have e.g. XNEW* and all we need is a new -W* flag to catch
 > > things like using C++ keywords and it should be fairly automatic to
 > > keep incompatibilities out of the sources.
 > 
 > Why not this?
 > 
 > #ifndef __cplusplus
 > #pragma GCC poison class template new . . .
 > #endif

That's limited.  A new -W flag could catch not only this, but also
other problems like naked void* -> FOO* conversions.  E.g. IIRC, the
-Wtraditional flag eventually caught over a dozen different problems.
Over time this new warning flag for c/c++ intersection could be
similarly refined.

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu



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