On 13 February 2014 20:47, Patrick Palka wrote: > On a related note, would a patch to officially enable > -Wmissing-declarations in the build process be well regarded?
What would be the advantage? > Since > -Wmissing-prototypes is currently enabled, I assume it is the > intention of the GCC devs to address these warnings, and that during > the transition from a C to C++ bootstrap compiler a small oversight > was made (that -Wmissing-prototypes is a no-op against C++ source > files). The additional safety provided by -Wmissing-prototypes is already guaranteed for C++. In C a missing prototype causes the compiler to guess, probably incorrectly, how to call the function. In C++ a function cannot be called without a previous declaration and the linker will notice if you declare a function with one signature and define it differently.
