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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