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Re: ISO C prototype style for libiberty?
> Less to maintain is all I was hoping for. I think the configure
> scripts (both libiberty's and gcc's) could be simplified quite a bit
> if we assumed a C89 compliant runtime library, as could libiberty.h
> and system.h.
Well, gcc can make assumptions libiberty can't, and as far as
libiberty's configure goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" seems to
be the best course.
I admit that cleaning up the includes intrigues me, but I also
hesitate to change that without completely understanding the OSs we
still need to support.
A target environment, for example, may use libiberty to *provide* c89
support functions for its runtime library.