Re: Baby X is bor nagain

Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:42:01 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
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gcc, however, is restricted and limited by its past - the developers
do not lightly make changes that will result in compilation failures
of code that previously compiled fine and had been tested to run
correctly.  Such changes - as made for gcc 14 - are only done after
long discussion and long testing with existing code bases.

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Default input dialect of C language was changed (it seems, to gnu17)
before gcc14.  May be, in gcc12.
BTW, finding out what dialect is a defaul is less than trivial.

I think it isn't hard to find out what variation of the C language
gcc takes in its default mode.

More importantly though, one should always give an explicit -std=
option, and specify which version of the language is desired.
Anything less is just asking for trouble.