Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Posted Oct 16, 2023 6:32 UTC (Mon) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)
In reply to: Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics by Cyberax
Parent article: Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Yeah, sure, connecting to the myriad of remote machines I have access to, suddenly switching them all at once, pissing of other users and sometimes their owners, not to mention the numerous ones which do not have that crappy option. And files, I'm sorry, but no. I'm certainly not going to replace all my files' contents, old source code, e-mails etc.

Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Posted Oct 16, 2023 9:13 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (4 responses)

Honestly, I have no idea how people manage to dig themselves into such a hole. At this point, you really need to go out of your way to NOT use utf-8 on remote hosts. I haven't seen a single case of a distro that does NOT default to it.

(Also, one-byte encoding suck. I can tell that as a survivor of KOI-8, CP-1251, CP-855, and the good old GOST standard encoding).

Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Posted Oct 17, 2023 15:43 UTC (Tue) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link] (3 responses)

> I haven't seen a single case of a distro that does NOT default to it.

That's exactly why you don't have this problem in the first place.

Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Posted Oct 17, 2023 16:41 UTC (Tue) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (2 responses)

So what distros did you see?

Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Posted Oct 17, 2023 19:16 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

I get the distinct impression that modern distros "work fine" for a suitable value of "work".

The problem appears to be that wtarreau is looking after a LOT of boxes, of assorted ages, many of which predate universal unicode.

And which - for whatever reason - he does not have the ability, or authority, to upgrade.

Cue one unholy mess.

Cheers,
Wol

Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Posted Oct 18, 2023 14:46 UTC (Wed) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link]

Exactly ;-)