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Re: Converting to ISO C89


On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 07:25, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mark Mitchell writes:
>  > 
>  > The SC has finally finished voting on ISO C89 conversion.  (The
>  > mailing list for the SC experienced some problems, which caused things
>  > to bog down a bit.)
>  > 
>  > The verdict is in: it is OK to assume ISO C89 in all code in GCC
>  > proper.  (In other words, libiberty and/or other libraries are not
>  > affected.)
>  > 
>  > So, patches to do ISO C conversions on the mainline are hereby
>  > pre-approved with one caveat: I would appreciate it if people would
>  > wait until GCC 3.3 is out the door.  The reason is that we're still
>  > applying a lot of patches to both branches, and that process is tricky
>  > enough without creating a lot of spurious merge conflicts.
> 
> I take it that new patches which are written in ISO C may be applied
> to the 3.3 branch. 

I can't see why not.

Thanks,

-- 
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark at codesourcery dot com


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