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When compiling with -W I receive the warning "empty body in an
else-statement" (this seems to be an "improvement" since 1.40). I'm
using empty else-statements intentionally in order to resolve dangling
else situations.

  if ( a )
    if ( b )
      do_this ;
    else
      ; 
  else
    do_that ;

-W is included in -Wall. The documentation says

     The remaining `-W...' options are not implied by `-Wall' because
  they warn about constructions that we consider reasonable to use, on
  occasion, in clean programs.

So I must conclude that my usage is unreasonable for a clean program.
(Of course I know how to achieve dangling else resolution on a
different way. But the mere existence of an alternative should not
deem everything else unreasonable). Can anybody explain?

BTW I could not find any documentation for this new warning. -W
description seems not to mention it. What did I overlook?

Regards,

Uwe
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Uwe Geuder, geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de