Re: Warn about character literals not of length one.

[Akim Demaille]

Le 23 juil. 09 à 20:22, Joel E. Denny a écrit :

> I'm surprised to see a comment in scan-gram.l that describes this  
> behavior
> almost as if it's desired:
>
>  /* Characters.  We don't check there is only one.  */

A FIXME might be missing :)

> Is there some good reason why we shouldn't check?

I don't see any.  Unless POSIX states this behavior, of course.

> I've thought about making it an error instead of a warning because it
> seems like a severe mistake to miss.  However, I worry that could  
> cause
> trouble for distro maintainers trying to build existing projects.

But we should really make this an error in the future, and I suggest  
that NEWS state this.