Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
> On Wed, 10 May 2023, 03:32 Eli Zaretskii, <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> And then people will start complaining about GCC unnecessarily
>> erroring out, which is a compiler bug, since there's no problem
>> producing correct code in these cases.
>>
>
>
> What is the correct code for this?
>
> void foo(int);
> void bar() { foo("42"); }
>
> Why should this compile?
Because keeping that from compiling will also keep this from compiling:
bar ()
{
extern foo ();
return foo ("42");
}
> You keep demanding better rationale for the change, but your argument
> amounts to nothing more than "it compiles today, it should compile
> tomorrow".
And so it should. Because for every invalid piece of code you can think
of, there are hundereds or thousands of combinations that may as well be
valid. For example, on the 68020, vax, or similarly reasonable 32-bit
machine:
foo (ptr)
{
register char *str;
str = ptr;
/* do stuff with str */
puts (str);
}
/* In another translation unit. */
bar ()
{
foo ("42");
}
