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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90


In article <3CFF5E10.3D440568@apple.com> you write:
>Marc Espie wrote:

>> I still have some big troubles understanding what's the point in
>> moving gcc sources to ISO-C ?

>> It's not as if K&R C was such an arcane dialect.  Are there really that
>> many gcc developers that don't know K&R C. Heck, I'm much more confused
>> by the mostly unreadable GNU coding conventions myself.

>That code would be more readable if you didn't have to have all
>the PARAMS and the VA_FIXEDARGS and the like, eh?

Actually, I get much more confused by the extra space before parenthesis,
or the two spaces indent, plus the waste of two indent levels per block.

But I digress...


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