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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>,
	apw@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch.pl: thou shalt not use () or (...) in function declarations
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:11:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8BB814.1090607@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F703F06.60709@redhat.com>

On 03/26/2012 03:03 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 03/22/2012 05:17 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
> 
>> GCC will not normally warn about the above (unless you pass
>> -Wold-style-definition) which warns for all function definitions that
>> lack a prototype.
> 
> 
> /me asks the stupid question:
> 
> Why not make the compiler catch this instead then, with -Werror=old-style-definition?
> 

Sounds like a good thing to do.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-16  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-22 15:27 [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch.pl: thou shalt not use () or (...) in function declarations Phil Carmody
2012-03-22 15:49 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-03-22 16:33   ` Joe Perches
2012-03-22 16:22 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-22 16:49   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-03-22 16:55     ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-22 17:00       ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-22 17:17       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-03-22 19:00         ` Joe Perches
2012-03-22 16:53   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-22 16:56     ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-22 17:48     ` Phil Carmody
2012-03-22 19:10       ` Peter Seebach
2012-03-22 20:01         ` Phil Carmody
2012-03-22 17:17   ` Nick Bowler
2012-03-22 17:19     ` Nick Bowler
2012-03-26 10:03     ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-16  6:11       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-03-22 17:32   ` Phil Carmody
2012-04-15 18:18   ` Phil Carmody

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