> On 13 Nov 2022, at 00:43, Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2022-11-11 07:11, Aaron Ballman wrote: >> We believe the runtime behavior is sufficiently dangerous to >> warrant a conservative view that any call to a function will be a call >> that gets executed at runtime, hence a definitive signature mismatch >> is something we feel comfortable diagnosing (in some form) by default. > > As long as these diagnostics by default do not cause the compiler to exit with nonzero status, we should be OK with Autoconf-generated 'configure' scripts. Although there will be problems with people who run "./configure CFLAGS='-Werror'", that sort of usage has always been problematic and unsupported by Autoconf, so we can simply continue to tell people "don't do that". > Is there somewhere in the autoconf docs we actually say this? I've seen a few instances of folks adding it themselves very early in their configure scripts (which is a pain for distros anyway) which then ends up affecting the rest.
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