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Re: concatenation of string literals
On Monday, April 21 2003, "DJ Delorie" wrote to "ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu" saying:
> > But since libiberty code doesn't change very often, I don't see any
> > point in zapping K&R there.
>
> Libiberty is used by more than just gcc. It can not change without
> unanimous consent from all the projects using it.
This was the point of my original mail -- K+R portability shouldn't be
considered "obsolete" in README.Portability for the purposes of libiberty,
until and unless this change is made.
Matt Kraii's reorganization of that file can probably stand, but there
should be a note about libiberty in the introduction, and K+R portability
issues should stay in the present tense.
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Jonathan Lennox
lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu