Re: [Lynx-dev] autotools vs. prototypes

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
| To: "Ryan Schmidt" <lynx@ryandesign.com>
| Cc: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>, "lynx-dev" <lynx-dev@nongnu.org>
| Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 8:41:34 PM
| Subject: Re: autotools vs. prototypes

| On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:29:50PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
|> On Aug 27, 2020, at 19:05, Thomas Dickey wrote:
|> 
|> >>> Ryan Schmidt dixit:
|> >>> 
|> >>>> Just to note, -Werror=implicit-function-declaration will be the default
|> >>>> behavior of Apple clang soon, hence the report we received and the
|> >>>> desire to fix this soon.
|> > 
|> > I see - as long as it's on the command-line, and not hardcoded into clang
|> > (though past experience suggests that's too much to expect).
|> > 
|> > For the moment, I'll proceed with the command-line.
|> 
|> Not sure what you mean exactly about the command line.  It's simply that the
|> default behavior of the compiler has changed, and now implicit function
|> declarations are an error, rather than a warning as they have been before.
| 
| sure - as long as they didn't hardcode the behavior, it's something that
| can be addressed in the configure script.  When I see the updated version,
| I'll update the configure script.

...and if it's interesting enough, I'll add to this:

https://invisible-island.net/personal/lint-tools.html#tool_clang

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