Stephen Warren wrote:
> On Sun, March 30, 2008 11:41 pm, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
>> And again, you missed what I said about declarations not at the top. This
>> is why we use -ansi -pedantic-errors:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc -std=c99 foo.c
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc -std=c99 -pedantic-errors foo.c
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc -ansi -pedantic-errors foo.c
>> foo.c: In function 'main':
>> foo.c:9: error: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$
>>
>> It's the ONLY combination that seems to catch that error.
> 
> Yes, but:
> 
> a) There's no reason to care about this, because like I said, I believe we
> can fix the Windows build issues by building concordance.c as C++ instead
> of C.

No, I'd like to make sure concordance is a lowest-common-denominator client.
I want it to be compiled as C.

> b) Those gcc options cause gcc (some versions, e.g. 4.1.x, 4.3.x) to fail
> to build concordance. Do we really want to prevent compilation on Linux
> just so it works on Windows?

I missed that it was an error for you, thought it was a warning. What if we
change -pedantic-errors to -pedantic-warnings, does it then build for you?

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