Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:17:06 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> On 10 Oct 1999, Felix Natter wrote:
> 
> > "Kalum Somaratna" <kalum AT myflat DOT com> writes:
> > > Hi Felix,
> > > The header file wich contain's the definition is stdlib.h  as 
> > > documented in the doc's.
> > > 
> > >  #include <stdlib.h>
> > >  void *xmalloc(size_t size);
> > > 
> > > It is strange that you got the messages. I compiled your program 
> > > and it linked without any problems and I also didn't get any 
> > > undefined reference's.
> > 
> > did you also not get any warnings like "implicit declaration of ..." ?
> > because that's what I got with gcc-2.8.1, and now with gcc-2.95.1
> > it's getting an error message
> 
> Yes, now -ansi-pedantic is the default for C++ compiler. Current C++ 
> standard does not permit implicit declarations. Of course You can use
> command line option -fpermissive to get warnings instead of errors for 
> some standard violations. But I suggest to fix Your source better.

Perhaps we should uncomment the prototype of xmalloc and friends in 
stdlib.h, but only #ifdef __cplusplus.

Comments?

Btw, isn't that -ansi-pedantic default of C++ a good reason to complain 
about to the GCC maintainers?  As far as I understand, that means, in 
particular, that C++ programs will not see prototypes of non-ANSI 
functions in our C headers, right?  I guess there are other calamities 
as well.

Or maybe we should turn that switch off in specs?