On 6/21/18, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 06/12/2018 11:21 AM, Joseph Myers wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Martin Sebor wrote: >> >>> The proposal to enable -Wstrict-prototypes discussed below >>> was considered too late for GCC 8. I'd like to revive it >>> now for GCC 9. >>> >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-01/msg00935.html >> >> My point from that discussion stands that () for no arguments should be >> considered separately from warning for all the other cases. > There's a lot of legacy code out there... What's the proposal for > handling the no argument () case? Are we thinking multiple levels? And > if so what's the default?
-Wstrict-prototypes and -Wstricter-prototypes for the prototypes case? And then split -Wold-style-definition into -Wold-style-definition and -Wc++-style-definition for the equivalent use of () in function definitions? > > This has the potential to cause a lot of headaches for the distros... > > jeff > >
