https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101446
Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last reconfirmed| |2021-07-14 Status|RESOLVED |NEW CC| |jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org Resolution|INVALID |--- Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #5 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- OK, so the complaint is that > ./cc1 -quiet t.c -pedantic t.c:1:47: warning: ISO C forbids empty initializer braces [-Wpedantic] 1 | static const char __gbk_from_ucs4_tab9[][2] = {}; | ^ t.c:1:19: error: zero or negative size array '__gbk_from_ucs4_tab9' 1 | static const char __gbk_from_ucs4_tab9[][2] = {}; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ errors and not only -pedantic-errors > ./cc1 -quiet t.c -pedantic-errors t.c:1:47: error: ISO C forbids empty initializer braces [-Wpedantic] 1 | static const char __gbk_from_ucs4_tab9[][2] = {}; | ^ t.c:1:19: error: zero or negative size array '__gbk_from_ucs4_tab9' 1 | static const char __gbk_from_ucs4_tab9[][2] = {}; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Wpedantic is just an alias for -pedantic - but see the documentation which explicitely says some constructs are rejected (not only warned on). -pedantic-errors says @item -pedantic-errors @opindex pedantic-errors Give an error whenever the @dfn{base standard} (see @option{-Wpedantic}) requires a diagnostic, in some cases where there is undefined behavior at compile-time and in some other cases that do not prevent compilation of programs that are valid according to the standard. This is not equivalent to @option{-Werror=pedantic}, since there are errors enabled by this option and not enabled by the latter and vice versa. so I still think it works as designed even if the new -Wpedantic alias suggests that -pedantic is a pure warning option.