On 27.02.26 07:45, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 02:04:30PM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
>>
>>
>> What I'm interested in is the broader policy: when reviewing patches,
>> if we encounter a foo() declaration, should we consistently request a change to foo(void)?
>> If yes, the standard should be documented somewhere.
>
> I think that they should be consistently fixed for the reasons mentioned in
> [1], and that the best way to achieve this goal would be to enable -Wstrict-prototypes
> by default ([2]).
Yes, why not add -Wstrict-prototypes and perhaps -Wold-style-definition
to the standard warnings. Then we don't have to keep chasing these
manually.