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There is more than one C specification, and with each new release of GCC several things that used to emit warnings are newly treated as errors.

• ranger_danger 2mo ago
  but if the correct standard is specified as an option, shouldn't that prevent conformant applications from failing to compile in newer versions?
  • stonogo 2mo ago
    Sure, that's one approach. Testing those changes takes time when you're working on a whole operating system and a ports tree. More time than cutting a new gcc release, as it turns out.
  • hulitu 2mo ago
    > shouldn't that prevent it should. It doesn't.