Converting to ISO C89

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Thu Apr 10 15:31:00 GMT 2003


Mark Mitchell writes:
 > 
 > The SC has finally finished voting on ISO C89 conversion.  (The
 > mailing list for the SC experienced some problems, which caused things
 > to bog down a bit.)
 > 
 > The verdict is in: it is OK to assume ISO C89 in all code in GCC
 > proper.  (In other words, libiberty and/or other libraries are not
 > affected.)
 > 
 > So, patches to do ISO C conversions on the mainline are hereby
 > pre-approved with one caveat: I would appreciate it if people would
 > wait until GCC 3.3 is out the door.  The reason is that we're still
 > applying a lot of patches to both branches, and that process is tricky
 > enough without creating a lot of spurious merge conflicts.

I take it that new patches which are written in ISO C may be applied
to the 3.3 branch. 

Andrew.



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