ISO C prototype style for libiberty?

[Zack Weinberg]

DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

>> I take it that all libiberty-using projects have taken the plunge,
>> then?  You vetoed this conversion awhile back because libiberty had
>> to be done last.
>
> At this point, I think libiberty *is* the last.

I'm glad to hear it.  It'll be nice to be completely done with this
conversion.

>> What's your opinion on dropping C89 library routines from libiberty?
>
> What would that buy us?  I mean, aside from the obvious "less to
> maintain" reason?

Less to maintain is all I was hoping for.  I think the configure
scripts (both libiberty's and gcc's) could be simplified quite a bit
if we assumed a C89 compliant runtime library, as could libiberty.h
and system.h.

zw