Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> writes: > This discussion thread is about having very good technical reasons -- as > explained multiple times, including instances where you agreed that the > technical reasons were good. > > Furthermore, even despite those technical reasons, GCC is *still* > committed to not breaking those old programs anyway. GCC merely wants to > make those old programs have to be compiled in an "old-programs" mode. > > Can you explain to me how you think this goal conflicts with your goal?
Because now people will have to go through dozens and dozens of Makefiles, configure.in, *.m4, just because GCC made a decision that results in everyone inserting: extern int foo (); above what used to be implicit function declarations?
