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Re: Convert prototypes to ISO C90
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:30:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: Convert prototypes to ISO C90
- References: <200310022332.26183.bruno@clisp.org>
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
>> The reason why in many places K&R is used is to get exactly the right
>> level of warnings re missing prototypes. Leave it as is, there is no
>> reason to change it.
>
> Another reason is that
> - glibc/intl shouldn't diverge too much from gettext/intl, and
> - gettext/intl needs to support K&R because some packages (most notably GCC)
> have a copy of it included in their source and need to build with HP-UX cc
> and SunOS4 cc.
The latter is not true any more. GCC is C89 now.
Andreas.
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