Re: Remove __malloc_ptrdiff_t

[Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>]

On 03/08/2013 09:05 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> I have also added a suggestion of generally converting to prototype 
> function definitions to 
> <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Development_Todo/Master>, as it 
> shouldn't be hard to script the bulk of such a conversion.

Thanks.  Out of curiosity, why have old-style definitions persisted
so long in the glibc source?  I asked about this years ago, and,
as I recall, Ulrich told me to buzz off without telling me why
he thought it important to keep them old-style.  (I asked
because gnulib uses prototypes and there are clashes.)