Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 1:18 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> ...
> If Clang's threatened pickiness were of some real use elsewhere, it
> might be justifiable for default Clang to break Autoconf. But so far we
> haven't seen real-world uses that would justify this pickiness for
> Autoconf's use of 'char memset_explicit(void);'.

This line of arguments is not persuasive. It is full of logical fallacies.

Maybe the Autoconf folks should argue something along the lines of,
"this is the _only_ way to do it because <...>."

Jeff