https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117028

--- Comment #7 from Frank Heckenbach <f.heckenb...@fh-soft.de> ---
(In reply to Joseph S. Myers from comment #5)
> Obsolescence is generally unhelpful when there is no non-obsolescent
> alternative in previous standard versions, given that much code needs to
> work with a range of implementation and standard versions; octal literals
> are extremely widely used and the new syntax doesn't exist before C23.

So how about a new warning that is off by default and can be activated by those
who want to convert their code, which can later become included in -Wall or
-Wextra?

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