ANSIfy cp/parser.c

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.co.uk
Thu Jan 9 06:52:00 GMT 2003


Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > Bootstrapped on i686-pc-linux-gnu.  OK to commit?
> >
> > I'm doing these one file at a time because they're *huge* (and because I 
> > have to do most of it by hand).  I'm asking
> > for approval because the ANSIfication of the function defintions (the
> > way formal parameters are specified) doesn't appear to fall under the
> > 'obvious' rule.  If someone says it does, I'll start putting these in
> > as soon as they bootstrap. :-)
> 
> I have ambitions of applying the new parser to C as well as C++;
> therefore I would appreciate this *not* being applied, unless we are
> going to reexamine the requirement for K+R C in the C front end.

Are you going to do that?

I'll say again that I think a combined C and C++ parser is a mistake;
it penalizes C in so many ways.

Neil.



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