Changes in C++ FE regarding pedwarns to be errors are harmful
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@cs.tamu.edu
Sun Jan 13 19:17:00 GMT 2008
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Ismail Dönmez wrote:
| Sunday 13 January 2008 18:40:25 tarihinde Gabriel Dos Reis sunlar? yazm?st?:
| > | real life testcase shows that problem stems from
| > | autoconf and its config.h. Projects end up defining things like
| > | HAVE_STDLIB_H twice which is not harmful at all but now causes an error
| > | if g++ is used.
| >
| > The problem is that any semantics of the above -- that is not an error
| > or silent ignorance -- is order-dependent, which is worse to debug.
|
| True but lots of real world applications are falling apart,
I believe it has been reported the numbre of those (reported in an
earlier message) is an overstatement.
-- Gaby
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