ANSIfy cp/parser.c

[Daniel Berlin]

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 10:42  AM, Bruce Korb wrote:

>
>> First of all, we clearly *are* going to reexamine it.  It only exists
>> because HP still ships a K&R compiler by default with HPUX; this has 
>> to
>> end or become irrelevant sometime.
>
> Is there a problem with forcing people who don't have the HP /opt/ansic
> compiler to either use a prebuilt or bootstrap with an older GCC?
> I am forever curious why it is important to self-hobble development
> when the 0.01% of GCC clients with this problem have workarounds.
>
I have to admit, i don't understand this either.
We've made yet another release they can use to start from.
Are there really no binaries of the past 80000 versions of gcc they can 
use to bootstrap with, for those that even care about bootstrapping?
Aren't most of these HP users generally not individuals anyway, 
instead, having some admin install something on a HP box that they all 
use?
I don't know anyone who has individual HP/UX boxes, but maybe it's just 
me.
If so, this would mean that probably only 0.01% of those 0.01% have to 
worry about getting binaries *anyway*, assuming they don't have 
/opt/ansic.

At some point, the number of people this affects gets so small that 
it's easier to keep a list of all of them, and set up a site for them 
to get binaries as a courtesy when we do releases.
:)
I'm sure all 6 of them would appreciate it.
:) :)
--Dan