Re: remove option -pedantic from standard gcc options?

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[Jochen Eisinger]
> By default, configure invokes gcc with option -pedantic, which
> produces some senseless warning messages (ANSI C doesn't allow
> macros with variable arguments...)

Well, it does also produce some sensible warnings, and help the
programmer to discover bugs and portability issues.

> Maybe we should add another option like --with-pedantic to
> configure, or IMO better remove it all (the gcc info page says it's
> a senseless option)

I do not think it will be a good idea. During development, the
compiler should be giving as many warnings as possible, on
non-portable and bad constructs in the source. When we make a
release, most of these warning flags are taken out, to avoid confusing
the users.

(After all, vararg macros are not ANSI C, and every SANE programmer
should be reminded about this. :-)

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