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Re: gdb and iso-c
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- Subject: Re: gdb and iso-c
- From: Jason Molenda <jason-gdb at molenda dot com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:05:17 -0800
Both Tom Tromey and I have brought this up before, but I'll bring
it up again. automake includes a program (ansi2knr) which is able
to reformat ISO C code in to K&R code -- it would not be difficult
to incorporate this (without switching to automake, even; just add
it in) for targets that do not have an ISO C compiler and for which
we cannot expect the presence of the GNU tools.
I'm in favor of moving to ISO C. It's been around a very long
time, we can move forward. But the cost of supporting older systems
via an automated translation at compile-time is so low that it is
silly to not add in support for it.
Of course, I'm not volunteering to actually _add_ the support for it
myself. :-) I need to start finding more free time somewhere. :-/
My two cents,
Jason