Re: new fails on gcc 3.4, i686-unknown-openbsd3.1

On Dec 28, 2002, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> wrote:

> #define __END_DECLS };

> Note the semicolon after }, that is what is causing it.

Looks like a job for fixheaders... They headers are obviously in error.

That said, it would be nice if the new parser would accept such gratuitous constructs, even if they're not legal C++. Even though, grammatically, they seem to be acceptable:

declaration -> block-declaration -> simple-declaration -> decl-specifier-seqopt init-declarator-listopt;

[dcl.dcl]/3 rules out the empty init-declarator-listopt. Nevertheless, I think it's a mistake to outright reject programs that contain such gratuitous semicolons. Given the number of occurrences of such constructs in testcases and GCC's libraries, it's obvious that a lot of code out there will be gratuitously (?) broken by this change.

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Mark, would it be too hard to accept such empty declarations, for the sake of backward-compatibility, perhaps emitting a warning for this deprecated extension, and make it an error only in a future release? Or perhaps we might even want to accept it indefinitely as a GNU extension. Any reason not to? (Not that the extension would solve OpenBSD's problem, given that the C++ testsuite runs with -ansi)

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