Local type inference with auto is in C2X

[Florian Weimer]

* Joseph Myers:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Florian Weimer via Gcc wrote:
>
>> My main worry is that both Clang and GCC still enable implicit ints by
>> default.  This means that auto variables have type int always, and that
>> can subtly alter the meaning of programs.  The only indication that this
>> has happened in a code base is a warning that went away (!).  I don't
>> like that.
>
> My expectation is that the old use of auto as a storage class specifier is 
> actually very rare in C code, so this particular sub-case (auto with no 
> type specifier meaning implicit int) is even rarer and there isn't much 
> porting to be done for it (unlike for the rest of implicit int).

Hmm, that's certainly a reassuring perspective.  Maybe I'm worrying
about nothing after all.

Thanks,
Florian