When using `"cStandard": "c17"`, errors for calls to functions with missing prototypes are not reported

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Edit: formatting, remove stray junk mostly from my copy/pastes from #14769.

Environment

• OS and Version: Debian 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2, WSL 2.2.4.0, Windows 10.0.19045.7725
• VS Code Version: 1.116.0
• C/C++ Extension Version: 1.34.4
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Bug Summary and Steps to Reproduce

Bug Summary:
When using Clang to build a freestanding --target=wasm32 library inside WSL, IntelliSense incorrectly infers implicit function declarations, because with "cStandard": "c17", they very, very obviously shouldn't exist. (That was removed starting C99, over 25 years ago.)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start WSL and make sure you have Clang 19.1.7 installed. (Later versions of Clang use a different method internally for the shuffle intrinsic.) Also, ensure there are no open VSCode windows and that no VSCode server is running in the background in the WSL VM. (You can check this pretty quickly with top/htop.)

2. Create a directory with the following file structure:

   • .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json: see below
   • .vscode/settings.json:

      {
          "C_Cpp.loggingLevel": "Debug"
      }

   • test.c:

      int main() {
          struct missing foo;
          one();
          return 0;
      }

3. Compile the executable and observe the following errors:

   clang -std=c17 -o out test.c

   test.c:3:20: error: variable has incomplete type 'struct missing'
       3 |     struct missing foo;
         |                    ^
   test.c:3:12: note: forward declaration of 'struct missing'
       3 |     struct missing foo;
         |            ^
   test.c:4:5: error: call to undeclared function 'one'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
       4 |     one();
         |     ^
   2 errors generated.
   

4. Open the folder in VSCode with only ms-vscode.cpptools running:

   code $(code --list-extensions | grep -v ms-vscode.cpptools | xargs -I % echo '--disable-extension %') .

5. Open test.c.

   You will observe one error squiggle over foo. If you hover over it, you'll see incomplete type "struct missing" is not allowed C/C++(70).

6. Hover over one. It will show a prototype of int one().

Expected behavior:

An error squiggle to also appear for one.

Configuration and Logs

I've redacted user-related paths, but that's it. $HOME is obvious, and $PROJECT is the project root.

.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json:

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Linux",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/"
            ],
            "defines": [],
            "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/clang",
            "cStandard": "c17",
            "cppStandard": "c++17",
            "intelliSenseMode": "linux-clang-x64"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

Diagnostics logs, grabbed immediately before following the reproduction steps:

Most of this junk is either from extensions that were manually disabled or unrelated customizations I made for JS development.

-------- Diagnostics - 9/13/2026, 9:54:03 AM
Version: 1.34.4
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    --clang_version=190107
    --c17
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LSP: Sending response (id: 12)
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LSP: Sending response (id: 14)
LSP: (received) cpptools/hover: file://$PROJECT/test.c (id: 15)
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LSP: (received) cpptools/getCodeActions: file://$PROJECT/test.c (id: 16)
LSP: (invoked) cpptools/getCodeActions: file://$PROJECT/test.c (id: 16)
LSP: Sending response (id: 16)
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LSP: (invoked) cpptools/hover: file://$PROJECT/test.c (id: 17)
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Other Extensions

I've confirmed this to occur with all extensions except ms-vscode.cpptools manually disabled.

code $(code --list-extensions | grep -v ms-vscode.cpptools | xargs -I % echo '--disable-extension %')

This is included in the reproduction steps.

Additional context

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[dead-claudia]

The same exact issue also exists if you switch "cStandard": "c17" to "cStandard": "c89" and add "compilerArgs": ["-Wall", "-Werror"], to the configuration in .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json. -Wall implies -Wmost, which implies -Wimplicit, which implies -Wimplicit-function-declaration, and -Wimplicit-function-declaration is supposed to warn on implicit function declarations.

But simply following "cStandard" correctly is enough to resolve this bug.