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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:57:33 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I wouldn't be surprised if it does soon - after all, it whines about
> just about everything else these days.  Each new version spits out tons
> of new warnings, and I go over my code and get rid of every one
> (sometimes correcting questionable code in the process).  And then I
> started compiling the Windows version of my stuff with MinGW, and the
> process began anew.

I think it was 11 that got stuffy about defining variables in header 
files. It never was a good practice but it was done frequently in some of 
our legacy code. Luckily yet another switch told it to shut up and go 
about its business like it always did. Trying to fix it would have been a 
month project for a newbie and we didn't have a newbie handy.