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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90

Robert Lipe wrote:-

> We've been pretty intolerant about supporting other "broken" vendor
> compilers for years.  The only proposed change in policy is to start
> considering a dead dialect (of a language that's been formally specified
> twice) to be "broken".  K&R has all kinds of rules that just plain
> aren't well known to a generation of programmers these days.  It does
> obscure the code.
> 
> Whether HP hosts a site of binaries or not shouldn't even be a question.
> Anybody that cares about HP-UX can put up a binary kit, right?  Two such
> sites are referenced from gcc.gnu.org.

And as Kelley pointed out, there's always GCC 2.95.x or GCC 3.x.y as a
"bridge compiler" for someone who's genuinely stuck.

Neil.
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