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- <h3 class="section">10.4 Traditional warnings</h3>
- <p>You can request warnings about features that did not exist, or worked
- differently, in traditional C with the <samp>-Wtraditional</samp> option.
- GCC does not warn about features of ISO C which you must use when you
- are using a conforming compiler, such as the ‘<samp>#</samp>’ and ‘<samp>##</samp>’
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- <p>Presently <samp>-Wtraditional</samp> warns about:
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- <li> Macro parameters that appear within string literals in the macro body.
- In traditional C macro replacement takes place within string literals,
- but does not in ISO C.
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- </li><li> In traditional C, some preprocessor directives did not exist.
- Traditional preprocessors would only consider a line to be a directive
- if the ‘<samp>#</samp>’ appeared in column 1 on the line. Therefore
- <samp>-Wtraditional</samp> warns about directives that traditional C
- understands but would ignore because the ‘<samp>#</samp>’ does not appear as the
- first character on the line. It also suggests you hide directives like
- ‘<samp>#pragma</samp>’ not understood by traditional C by indenting them. Some
- traditional implementations would not recognize ‘<samp>#elif</samp>’, so it
- suggests avoiding it altogether.
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- </li><li> A function-like macro that appears without an argument list. In some
- traditional preprocessors this was an error. In ISO C it merely means
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