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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- From: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc:
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:50:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure (quatramaran)
- References: <200206061156.g56BuJV27572@quatramaran.ens.fr>
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...