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Re: Converting to ISO C89
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 10 Apr 2003 09:31:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: Converting to ISO C89
- References: <200303250642.h2P6gZ4r025932@doubledemon.codesourcery.com> <16021.32483.528431.369019@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>
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,
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Mark Mitchell
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mark at codesourcery dot com