Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] stricter GCC (was: Re: [Patch] iostat win32 build)

["John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason House wrote:
> Is there any flags to GCC that should be passed to make it act more like
> stricter compilers?  I know there are things such as -ansi and many,
> many, other flags.  One or more of them should be good for making the
> common source contributor notice small problems with other compilers.

Just to be clear, Guy was correct.  labels require statements; the null 
statement ends with a semicolon.  This is not a "problem" with other 
compilers, it is an extra leniency of gcc.

I propose
-std=c99
as a possible option to use.  That would ensure compliance with C99 which 
is ISO/IEC 9899.

--john

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