What is the purpose of using -pedantic in the GCC/G++ compiler?

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I use it all the time in my coding.

The -ansi flag is equivalent to -std=c89. As noted, it turns off some extensions of GCC. Adding -pedantic turns off more extensions and generates more warnings. For example, if you have a string literal longer than 509 characters, then -pedantic warns about that because it exceeds the minimum limit required by the C89 standard. That is, every C89 compiler must accept strings of length 509; they are permitted to accept longer, but if you are being pedantic, it is not portable to use longer strings, even though a compiler is permitted to accept longer strings and, without the pedantic warnings, GCC will accept them too.

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