Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Alexandre Oliva
2005-09-21T08:17:12Z

On Sep 20, 2005, Stephen Pollei <stephen.pollei@gmail.com> wrote:

> it takes gcc -Wall test_proto.c --std=c99 -pedantic-errors to cause it
> not to create the a.out .
> So gcc should have caused an error as I didn't set --std=gnu99 .. bad compiler.
> So I don't know howto get gcc to follow the standards in this area,
> that sounds like a good thing to require.

gnu99 is the default. Also, the standard doesn't talk about errors or
warnings, it only requires diagnostics for ill-formed code. Deciding
what kind of diagnostic to issue is a compiler implementation
decision.

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