Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@codesourcery.com
Thu Jun 6 10:58:00 GMT 2002
Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> writes:
[...]
I wanted to stay out of this discussion, but I can't let the followiing:
| At a guess again, I want tend to say that any actual ISO C feature that
| is not supported by K&R is bound to make the compiler more brittle.
I disagree. Using the appropriate types to convey the real intent
isn't something I think make the compiler more brittle. However, I saw
in the past that because we wanted to stay with K&R, we can't use much
more expressive types. That is a pity.
-- Gaby
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