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Re: ISO C prototype style for libiberty?
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
>> I take it that all libiberty-using projects have taken the plunge,
>> then? You vetoed this conversion awhile back because libiberty had
>> to be done last.
>
> At this point, I think libiberty *is* the last.
I'm glad to hear it. It'll be nice to be completely done with this
conversion.
>> What's your opinion on dropping C89 library routines from libiberty?
>
> What would that buy us? I mean, aside from the obvious "less to
> maintain" reason?
Less to maintain is all I was hoping for. I think the configure
scripts (both libiberty's and gcc's) could be simplified quite a bit
if we assumed a C89 compliant runtime library, as could libiberty.h
and system.h.
zw