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Re: Removing ansi2knr support


From: Alain Magloire
Subject: Re: Removing ansi2knr support
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:10:25 -0500 (EST)

> 
> I'd like to propose that we consider removing ansi2knr from mailutils. 
> The GNU coding standards now permit the use of ANSI C, and I suspect
> that ansi2knr is never getting testing or used.  It's worth noting that
> there was a similar discussion on the GCC list, and the only places that
> they're keeping KNR support is in code that gets used to build a
> bootstrap compiler for HPUX.  I think it's probably reasonable to ask HP
> folks to download GCC.

+1, for me.
I no longer have access to K&R C Compiler to keep this alive and tested.
My last one was an old SunOS box, RIP.
Dunno 'bout Sergey.

> Also, what do folks think about using new constructs from C99?
> 

Is not that a little to early, folks still using gcc-2.9x
But I hardly could come up with a good example were c99 constructs
could be of any advantages.






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