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Re: Converting to ISO C89
Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com> writes:
> Falk Hueffner <falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de> writes:
>> > Couldn't that be easily worked around with -Dclass=__class or
>> > something?
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:01:54PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Is this not a cure worse than the disease?
>
> As a "permanent" solution it would be fairly brittle. But for the purpose of
> an experiment, to see if any type errors can be found in GCC (due to prototype
> mismatches or misuse of enums) it could be worth a shot. It might not work
> as well as expected, if some system header optionally defines a class if
> __cplusplus is defined.
>
I'm all for experiments. I'm just reluctant to do something this
brittle on a regular basis.
zw