On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Martin Sebor wrote: > It's meant as an escape hatch. It allows declaring compatibility > symbols, for example by the libstdc++ _GLIBCXX_3_4_SYMVER macro > defined in libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/compatibility.cc. The macro is > used to declare compatibility functions of all sorts of incompatible > types. The originally posted patch had libstdc++ disable the warning > for the file with the symbols but Jonathan preferred this solution. > > It could perhaps be tightened up to detect some of the cases on your > list but I'm not sure it's worth the effort and added complexity. > Let me know if you feel differently (or have a different suggestion), > otherwise I will go ahead and commit the patch as is.
Please add a comment explaining this reasoning and commit the patch. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
