Re: [PATCH 2/15 v2] Unhardcode byte size being 8 bits.

["Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:52, Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk> wrote:
> All,
>
>> I have reported the bug in gcc.  Track Bug: 38563
>> at: gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla
>
> A very prompt response from a gcc maintainer, bug 38563
> is a duplicate of bug 22086.
>
> "This is a GCC extension. sizeof(void) is invalid C and should error out
> and does with -pedantic-errors"
>
> Yuk, who ever thought to use -pedantic-errors!
>
> -ansi or -std=c89 or -std=c99 don't elicit any diagnostics.

I don't really see why you take this as a tragedy. People seem
to like this extension:
linux/linux-2.6$ make -j 8 CC='gcc -Wpointer-arith' 2>&1 | grep
'warning: pointer of type \'void \*\' used in arithmetic' | uniq | wc
-l
45095

And anyway, that's how gcc works, so sparse can only follow.

P.S:
Dear sir, can you imagine, in Russia, they put pieces of lemon
in their tea! And you worry about gcc being wrong.
/humor