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Re: K&R and ISO

To: "Alain Magloire" <alain at qnx dot com>
Subject: Re: K&R and ISO
From: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:55:03 -0400
Cc: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper), libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com (GNU libc hacker)

> I already did, when I brought the point to U.D., regex.[ch] is use in
> many packages and will not compile without an ANSI C.  I'm a bit worry that
> next time I'll look, it will need not only an ANSI C comp. but gcc.

There has been no suggestion to reduce the level of support for ANSI C
compilers other than GCC, and I don't think that retaining portability to
all ANSI C compliant compilers will be a problem in the future.  I think
that the libc team will happily continue to accept reports of
nonportability to ANSI C compilers for these shared files as bonafide bugs.

The remaining question is, is portability to non-ANSI C compilers is
important to you at all, and if so, can you just you ansi2knr or protoize
and be happy?

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