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Re: GNU make release candidate 4.1.90 available for download
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: GNU make release candidate 4.1.90 available for download |
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Sun, 1 May 2016 17:48:13 -0700 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
>> > Of course, it's possible that the gnulib versions no longer support C89.
> Yes, that's right, Gnulib stopped supporting K&R in 2003.
Oops, sorry, I now see that you wrote "C89" not "K&R". Gnulib still supports
C89.
The old getopt code in question is causing problems because it attempts to port
to K&R and this port is going awry on modern compilers that are almost (but not
quite) C89-compatible. It's not worth the hassle to worry about K&R any more, so
the fix in Gnulib was obvious: drop K&R support.