From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [committed] c: C2x removal of unprototyped functions
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 15:18:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08891168-b92d-79cf-fbd6-32f02d391aae@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2209011911410.550568@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On 9/1/2022 1:12 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> C2x has completely removed unprototyped functions, so that () now
> means the same as (void) in both function declarations and
> definitions, where previously that change had been made for
> definitions only. Implement this accordingly.
>
> This is a change where GNU/Linux distribution builders might wish to
> try builds with a -std=gnu2x default to start early on getting old
> code fixed that still has () declarations for functions taking
> arguments, in advance of GCC moving to -std=gnu2x as default maybe in
> GCC 14 or 15; I don't know how much such code is likely to be in
> current use.
Happy to see this happen (dropping unprototyped funtions). IIRC older
versions of autoconf are going to generate code that runs afoul of this
problem as well.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-01 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-01 19:12 Joseph Myers
2022-09-01 21:18 ` Jeff Law [this message]
2022-09-02 6:16 ` Richard Biener
2022-09-05 19:51 ` Joseph Myers
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