On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 13:38 +0000, Qing Zhao via Gcc-patches wrote:
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> > On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:14 PM, Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2023, Qing Zhao via Gcc-patches wrote:
> >
> > > +Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end
> > > +C C++ Var(warn_variable_sized_type_not_at_end) Warning
> > > +Warn about structures or unions with C99 flexible array members are not
> > > +at the end of a structure.
> >
> > I think there's at least one word missing here, e.g. "that" before "are".
>
> Will fix it.
> >
> > > +Please use warning option @option{-Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end}
> > > to
> > > +identify all such cases in the source code and modify them. This
> > > extension
> > > +will be deprecated from gcc in the next release.
> >
> > We don't generally say "in the next release" in the manual (or "deprecated
> > from gcc"). Maybe it *is* deprecated, maybe it will be *removed*, or will
> > *start to warn by default*, in some specified version number (giving a
> > version number seems better than "next release"), but "will be deprecated"
> > is odd.
> How about the following:
>
> +Please use warning option @option{-Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end} to
> +identify all such cases in the source code and modify them. This warning
> will be
> + on by default starting from GCC14.
I'm wondering why it *was" not on by default...
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Xi Ruoyao <xry...@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
