g++ doesn't diagnose implicit int error

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-06-11 11:22, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Keith Thompson writes:
>> On Windows targets (including Cygwin and MinGW), the "-fms-extensions"
>> option is enabled by default.  This option enables certain Microsoft
>> extensions -- and apparently inhibits any diagnostics for implicit int.
>>
>> It is unfortunate, and arguably a bug, that this means that
>> "g++ -std=c++11 -pedantic" fails to diagnose implicit int errors.
>> I'm not sure whether this is a bug in gcc or in the way Windows
>> versions of gcc are built.
> 
> In the case of Cygwin it is quite certainly a bug as Cygwin is not a
> Windows target.

Seems like ms-extensions is enabled if the target is x86 with MS ABI, or
plan9-extensions is enabled. The former allows use of struct/union member names
the same as typedef names, and the latter allows passing pointers to
structs/unions and typedefs with anonymous fields, and referring to anonymous
fields declared using typedefs.

Cygwin may require these extensions to handle Windows structure definitions in a
Windows compatible way, to allow compilation of the Windows C and C++ modules
under winsup. That it enables C++ implicit int is unfortunate.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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