* Joseph Myers: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Florian Weimer via Gcc wrote: > >> My main worry is that both Clang and GCC still enable implicit ints by >> default. This means that auto variables have type int always, and that >> can subtly alter the meaning of programs. The only indication that this >> has happened in a code base is a warning that went away (!). I don't >> like that. > > My expectation is that the old use of auto as a storage class specifier is > actually very rare in C code, so this particular sub-case (auto with no > type specifier meaning implicit int) is even rarer and there isn't much > porting to be done for it (unlike for the rest of implicit int).
Hmm, that's certainly a reassuring perspective. Maybe I'm worrying about nothing after all. Thanks, Florian
