Re: The dreaded segfault

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:03:41 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Oct 17, 8:52 am, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Stephen Horne wrote:


    [...]

gcc 4 will give the required diagnostic if you invoke it in a
conforming mode:

g++ /tmp/x.cc -ansi -pedantic
/tmp/x.cc: In function 'int main()':
/tmp/x.cc:11: error: ISO C++ forbids variable-size array 'successors'


That works, but if I understand correctly, the exact meaning of
-ansi may change in time. A more precise replacement would be
-std=c++98.

In practice, with any compiler, you'll need a lot of options for
everyday use. For g++ under Solaris, for example, I use:

    $ echo $GppFlags
    -std=c++98 -pedantic -ffor-scope -fno-gnu-keywords -foperator-
names -pipe -Wall -W -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-
deprecated -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wpointer-arith -Wno-unused -Wno-
switch -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-long-long -static-libgcc -ggdb3 -
D_GLIBCXX_CONCEPT_CHECKS -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC
    $ echo $GppOFlags
    -std=c++98 -pedantic -ffor-scope -fno-gnu-keywords -foperator-
names -pipe -Wall -W -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-
deprecated -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wpointer-arith -Wno-unused -Wno-
switch -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-long-long -static-libgcc -O3 -fomit-
frame-pointer -finline-functions

I'm not sure that all of them are (still) necessary, and I'm
probably missing a few useful ones because I use the same
environment variable with older versions of g++. (Note too that
at least one of the options, -Wno-long-long, is there to turn on
an extension.)

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