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Re:NetBSD 11.0 by stonogo on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:46PM (#49140899)
There is more than one C specification, and with each new release of GCC several things that used to emit warnings are newly treated as errors.
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Re:NetBSD 11.0 by ranger_danger on Sunday August 02, 2026 @12:15PM (#49145851)
but if the correct standard is specified as an option, shouldn't that prevent conformant applications from failing to compile in newer versions?
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Re:NetBSD 11.0 by stonogo on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:11PM (#49150106)
Sure, that's one approach. Testing those changes takes time when you're working on a whole operating system and a ports tree. More time than cutting a new gcc release, as it turns out.
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Re:NetBSD 11.0 by hulitu on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:42AM (#49151291)
> shouldn't that prevent

it should. It doesn't.

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