From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
To: sts@ica1.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Schwarzer)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: request: warning messages
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <199901292059.MAA28368@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <14001.64791.948587.622465@boa.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de>
X-SW-Source: 1999-01/msg00373.html

> I hope in the interest of the survival of my project 
> that in egcs releases you keep letting me compile code that uses Xlib. 

I thought that there was going to be an item in the FAQ about this, but
I don't see it.

Use -fpermissive .

> I really appreciate your efforts!, but I beg you to please give 
> naive developpers like me an option to choose compromise over religion. 

The problem with accepting bad code by default forever is that people
will write bad code forever.  -fpermissive will allow older stuff to
compile.