On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > * The C++ frontend warns about "while (true);" when there is no > whitespace between the ')' and the ';'. The C frontend does not. I'm > not sure how to best handle this. It doesn't make much sense to warn > about this with -Wc++-compat. Should the C frontend warn about this? > Should the C++ frontend not warn about this? Any opinions?
I consider this whitespace-sensitive warning very dubious. > * In C a const variable which is neither "extern" nor "static" is > visible outside of the current translation unit. In C++ it is not, > without an explicit "extern" declaration. I'm not sure how best to > handle this with -Wc++-compat, since C does not permit initializing an > "extern const" variable. C does permit it; there's a warning, not a pedwarn. Add an option to disable this warning (at least where "const" is used)? -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
