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Re: ANSIfy cp/parser.c
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:11:49 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: ANSIfy cp/parser.c
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> Perhaps automake can help? Does anyone think adding automake
> conversion of the gcc dir and ansi2knr as two new beginner projects is
> worthwhile?
ansi2knr is not a sensible road. The benefits of using ISO C go beyond
the trivial syntax changes in function declarations and definitions and
keeping things limited so a converter can work is a bad idea.
I believe at least some of the people who've done most of the work on the
build system lately also dislike automake. We shouldn't go adding things
to the projects list that are far from being agreed as a good idea.
There's enough there already that has either been done, or is obsolete, or
no longer seems generally such a good idea as it did to someone when the
entries were put on the lists.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk