verify: document conflict with -Wnested-externs

[gnulib.git] / lib / verify.h

diff --git a/lib/verify.h b/lib/verify.h
index cef14ad..0c320b1 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/verify.h
+++ b/lib/verify.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
        extern int (*dummy (void)) [sizeof (struct {...})];
 
    * GCC warns about duplicate declarations of the dummy function if
-     -Wredundant_decls is used.  GCC 4.3 and later have a builtin
+     -Wredundant-decls is used.  GCC 4.3 and later have a builtin
      __COUNTER__ macro that can let us generate unique identifiers for
      each dummy function, to suppress this warning.
 
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@
      which do not support _Static_assert, also do not warn about the
      last declaration mentioned above.
 
+   * GCC warns if -Wnested-externs is enabled and verify() is used
+     within a function body; but inside a function, you can always
+     arrange to use verify_expr() instead.
+
    * In C++, any struct definition inside sizeof is invalid.
      Use a template type to work around the problem.  */