How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?
Jeffrey Walton via cfe-commits
cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 16 10:40:27 PST 2022
On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 1:18 PM Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> ...
> If Clang's threatened pickiness were of some real use elsewhere, it
> might be justifiable for default Clang to break Autoconf. But so far we
> haven't seen real-world uses that would justify this pickiness for
> Autoconf's use of 'char memset_explicit(void);'.
This line of arguments is not persuasive. It is full of logical fallacies.
Maybe the Autoconf folks should argue something along the lines of,
"this is the _only_ way to do it because <...>."
Jeff
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