Re: A: a new bug to old plain C

Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-help <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.help
Message-ID <CAH6eHdQtq5WJxucEzDtDd7A8f6G41i40yYvaLTd4zKtzzAdNzQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 4 Dec 2025, 14:29 Richard Biener, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM Александр Поваляев via Gcc
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David!
> >
> > I don't think "Fatal error" is an appropriate term for "Foo**" -> "const
> > Foo * const * const" conversion. It has been here for decades (30 or 40
> > years) as a warning.
> > And some of the compilers don't report it as a warning by default (please
> > see the code snippet with the comments I posted to this e-mail thread).
> >
> > Once again, converting a warning which has been known for 30 years to a
> > "Fatal Error" by default is the wrong way. IT BREAKS 30 YEARS BACK
> > COMPATIBILITY!!!
> > And as somebody wrote here, now it is on the way to become part of C
> > standard (and it would be quite logic outcome), but not a "Fatal Error"
> as
> > you wish.
> >
> > WHO DISCUSSED THESE CHANGES?
> > WHERE THESE CHANGES ARE DOCUMENTED?
> > ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SOME REAL THINGS?
> > IF YES, COULD YOU PLEASE BE SO KIND TO POST A LINK. GREAT THANK YOU IN
> > ADVANCE!!!
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/porting_to.html


I gave him that link a week and a half ago. He's either trolling or just
unwilling to listen to the answers he doesn't like.

Either way he's a time waster, and filling the mailing list with the same
rubbish over and over.
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.