On 2015.08.21 at 08:18 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2015.08.19 at 21:46 +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > submitter noticed that, in violation of [basic.start.main], we don't
> > reject as ill-formed the declaration of a 'main' variable in the global
> > namespace. Not a big deal IMHO, but the below simple check works well
> > for me on x86_64-linux.
>
> Well, it breaks building Firefox for example (several violations).
> I'm not sure this is really worth the hassle. Maybe a warning instead of
> an error would be acceptable?
For example:
% echo "void foo() { int main; }" | g++ -c -x c++ -
<stdin>: In function ‘void foo()’:
<stdin>:1:18: error: cannot declare ‘::main’ to be a global variable
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Markus
