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invoke.texi (-pedantic): Refer to ISO C instead of ANSI C, and update to describe current practice.

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* invoke.texi (-pedantic): Refer to ISO C instead of ANSI C, and
	update to describe current practice.

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@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ Mon Jul 17 02:37:06 2000 Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>
2000-07-17 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
* invoke.texi (-pedantic): Refer to ISO C instead of ANSI C, and
update to describe current practice.
* glimits.h (LLONG_MIN, LLONG_MAX, ULLONG_MAX): Define for C99.
* contrib.texi, cpp.texi, extend.texi, invoke.texi: Update

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@ -1447,10 +1447,12 @@ These options control the amount and kinds of warnings produced by GCC:
Check the code for syntax errors, but don't do anything beyond that.
@item -pedantic
Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ANSI C and ISO C++;
reject all programs that use forbidden extensions.
Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ISO C and ISO C++;
reject all programs that use forbidden extensions, and some other
programs that do not follow ISO C and ISO C++. For ISO C, follows the
version of the ISO C standard specified by any @samp{-std} option used.
Valid ANSI C and ISO C++ programs should compile properly with or without
Valid ISO C and ISO C++ programs should compile properly with or without
this option (though a rare few will require @samp{-ansi}). However,
without this option, certain GNU extensions and traditional C and C++
features are supported as well. With this option, they are rejected.
@ -1462,16 +1464,13 @@ warnings are also disabled in the expression that follows
these escape routes; application programs should avoid them.
@xref{Alternate Keywords}.
This option is not intended to be @i{useful}; it exists only to satisfy
pedants who would otherwise claim that GCC fails to support the ANSI
standard.
Some users try to use @samp{-pedantic} to check programs for strict ANSI
Some users try to use @samp{-pedantic} to check programs for strict ISO
C conformance. They soon find that it does not do quite what they want:
it finds some non-ANSI practices, but not all---only those for which
ANSI C @emph{requires} a diagnostic.
ISO C @emph{requires} a diagnostic, and some others for which
diagnostics have been added.
A feature to report any failure to conform to ANSI C might be useful in
A feature to report any failure to conform to ISO C might be useful in
some instances, but would require considerable additional work and would
be quite different from @samp{-pedantic}. We don't have plans to
support such a feature in the near future.