Date: 20 Jul 2003 14:29:50 -0700 From: LLeweLLyn Reese <llewelly@lifesupport.shutdown.com> To: Peter Kadau <peter.kadau@tuebingen.mpg.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc-3.3 issues Message-ID: <x3y8ysnay9.fsf@lifesupport.shutdown.com> In-Reply-To: <1058607176.23615.8.camel@straycat> References: <20030718191649.GB84963@freefall.freebsd.org> <1058556984.32024.24.camel@straycat> <x3d6g7nv2l.fsf@lifesupport.shutdown.com> <1058607176.23615.8.camel@straycat>
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Peter Kadau <peter.kadau@tuebingen.mpg.de> writes: > Hi ! > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3/gcc/Warning-Options.html#Warning%20Options > > Hmm, that's exactly as in the info page. > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3/gcc/C---Dialect-Options.html#C++%20Dialect%20Options > > > and search for permissive, to see the condition Alexander speaks of. > > Well, here it is: > -fpermissive > Downgrade messages about nonconformant code from errors to > warnings. By default, G++ effectively sets -pedantic-errors > without -pedantic; this option reverses that. This behavior and > this option are superseded by -pedantic, which works as it does > for GNU C. On second reading, I'm not sure I understand it either. (And I am a native speaker. :-) > > I admit, I'm not a native speaker, so please correct me. > Doesn't that mean, if you don't specify any pedantic, it defaults > to -pedantic-errors for C++, but if you specify -pedantic, you don't > get errors for warnings like it should be... ?? Specifying -pedantic doesn't turn errors into warnings for g++. I don't think the phrase 'this option reverses that' is intended to mean g++ swaps the meaning of -pendantic and -pendantic-errors; I think it is intended to mean -fpermissive downgrades many errors into warnings.
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