[Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>] PATCH: obstack.c, obstack.h port to AS/400 (for Bison and gnulib)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:

| On Mon, 10 May 2004, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > Do people believe that our copy of obstack should be modified to
| > reflect this proposed patch to libc (if accepted there)?
| 
| The version of obstack we should follow is probably that in gnulib rather
| than that in glibc (though they are fairly well aligned), but as long as
| libiberty can't assume a C90 compiler

Now that GCC is requiring a C90 compiler, is there any other reason
why libiberty can't assume similar compiler?

|  we can't just copy the current
| versions from gnulib but need to backport patches of interest.

Agreed.

| obstack was last properly updated from upstream with
| 
| Mon Jun  1 13:47:55 1998  Jason Molenda  (crash@bugshack.cygnus.com)
| 
|         * obstack.c: Update to latest FSF version.
| 
| Mon Jun  1 13:48:32 1998  Jason Molenda  (crash@bugshack.cygnus.com)
| 
|         * obstack.h: Update to latest FSF version.

those seem a bit old, and do not reflect the recent removal of uses of
cast-as-lvalue extensions.  What am I missing?

-- Gaby