[patch] beginnings of the macro rewrite

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> 
>   In message < 20000421133913.D10427@wolery.cumb.org >you write:
>   > 
>   > *sigh* I was hoping 10 years past the adoption of C89 was long
>   > enough.  This isn't Fortran, after all... :)
> Don't be so sure.  I don't really expect traditional dialects of C to die
> off any faster than F77 code has died off.

grumble.  Okay, I'll put it all back.

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>   > This mode should allow a relatively clean implementation of the
>   > backward compatibility features - and at the same time it will permit
>   > use of -traditional on systems with aggressively modern header files
>   > (or anyway the preprocessor won't cause trouble).
> I'm not worried much about -traditional causing problems on systems with
> modern header files.  

I would like to be able to test -traditional on a system with modern
header files.

zw