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Re: GCC Steering Committee decision on ISO C conversion
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:49:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: GCC Steering Committee decision on ISO C conversion
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> The GCC Steering Committee was asked to consider dropping traditional
> (K&R) C support in the GCC sources and allow converting everything to
> ISO C. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-06/msg00337.html
>From time to time non-ISO C89 code but valid ISO C99 (and C++)
code creeps into the compiler: specifically declarations of
variables after the first statement in a block:
{
int i;
doit ();
int j;
...
}
As long as cross-compilers are supposed to be buildable with
gcc-2.95, I suggest that "ISO C" should be further qualified as
"ISO C89" (or whatever the correct standardese term is).
Necessary only for the "non-C language frontends" file group, of
course.
brgds, H-P