Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> Then, if the warnings are not very useful but are mandated by the
> standard, I think that the sensible thing is to make them conditional
> on -pedantic. This way, people wanting strict diagnostics for
> nonconformant code can get them, while people that don't care about it
> don't need to suffer even a warning.
I agree.
For diagnostics for issues which (a) probably do not indicate mistakes
on the part of the programmer, and (b) can be readily ignored by the
compiler, the idiomatic handling is:
if (pedantic)
pedwarn (...);
Thus, only users who want pedantic error messages see the message. They
can control whether the message is an error or a warning via
-pedantic-errors (or the C++ front-end's -fpermissive).
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