Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
law@redhat.com
law@redhat.com
Wed Jun 5 14:01:00 GMT 2002
In message <3CFE7AA9.553C5298@apple.com>, Stan Shebs writes:
> law@redhat.com wrote:
> >
> > [...] In fact we've received bug reports within
> > the last couple weeks due to folks trying to build on HPs using the bundle
> d
> > compiler and running into cases where ANSI-isms have crept into the source
> s.
>
> I think it's very telling that a) the ISOisms are quietly showing
> up over and over, and that b) there is only a small group of HP
> users that ever notice this.
Yes, but do we want to lock them out of being able to build GCC? That
seems so counter-intuitive as to be silly to me.
And given that the reports came in nearly immediately after GCC 3.1 was
released and multiple times I'm not sure I'd call it a "small group".
I think this would be an amazingly bad thing to do.
> Is there some reason not to provide GCC binaries for these HP
> users? Are these people on new or old machines? Has anybody
> talked to HP about hosting the GCC binaries? Seems like a good
> PR move to me; I'm sure HP doesn't want to be publicly known as
> the sole reason for GCC using pre-ISO C, doesn't sound like the
> sort of company developers would want to support.
HP has tried to host binaries in the past. A goodly number of the bug reports
we get are because they've always messed it up. We really don't want to
get into the binary distribution business, particularly on a platform that
is so, err, "fun" as HPs.
jeff
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