Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 11:40:12 -0700 (PDT) From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/55278: Externs on implicit declarations Message-ID: <200308091840.h79IeCrg009637@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/55278; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Roderick van Domburg <roderick@gog.student.utwente.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/55278: Externs on implicit declarations Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 11:33:23 -0700 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003, Roderick van Domburg wrote: > I am getting a lot of errors like "error: ISO C++ forbids the use of ` > extern' on explicit instantiations" during C++ compiles. (Specifically, > I have stumbled upon them trying to compile KDevelop and Kopete from > recent ports.) > > Initially it looked like a bug in libstdc++ so I reported it to the GCC > project (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11792) but they > have determined it to be an issue with the FreeBSD compiler. FreeBSD doesn't hide warnings in system headers, whereas Linux and other systems do. If GNU does not intend to fix the warnings in libstdc++, then we may need to make an exception for it. We keep the rest of our headers warnings-clean.
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