[cfe-commits] [PATCH] Change wording of the warning about 'long long' being an extension

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Ronan Keryell <Ronan.Keryell at silkan.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:53:07 +0300, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> said:
>
>     Dmitri> The rationale for my change is that if one has some C++ code
>     Dmitri> that is being compiled in C++98 mode, offering C99 isn't of
>     Dmitri> much help, since most C++ features are not C99-compatible.
>
> Yes, I understand.
>
> I was just thinking also to the poor lost guys that use the C++ compiler
> to compile their C code... :-)
>
> That sounds crazy but this happens.

This is an interesting viewpoint, but it should be applied
consistently to all our diagnostics.  I don't think that we aim to
educate the programmer with diagnostics.

Although we have to admit that there are programmers who learn
language features by playing with their implementation in a particular
compiler.

Dmitri

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