"mmitchel at gcc dot gnu dot org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| The problem behind both diagnostics fact that the C++ front-end pre-lexes the | entire source file. As a result, the lexing routines, which depends on the | setting of pedantic to determine whether or not to issue errors, are | called when pedantic is set, even though we are within an | __extension__ block. Because the parsing of __extension__ blocks is | complex, we need to either (a) eliminate the up-front lexing, or (b) | defer issuing diagnostics until we are actually in | position to know the correct value of pedantic. In long term, I believe (b) is a better alternative. -- Gaby
