Re: coreutils-6.5: yet another C89 problem

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Yet again, a new C89-incompatibility ... [snip]
>
> As you can see, I am not very motivated to be
> proactive about supporting such ancient compilers.
> Is upgrading not an option for you?

As I recall, I work with several platforms that do not have C99 
compilers. NSK I know is one, also OSF (which I don't know ho long we're 
stuck with the 4.x series) and Solaris 5.7 (which we also still support 
for our product lines). I haven't tested using a 5.8 compiler against 
5.7, but at any rate I still run into this sort of thing often enough 
that non-c89 code is annoying.

...and unless there is a free upgrade for NSK, then in that case at 
least the answer to 'can you upgrade' is "no".

Anyway, that's my $0.02.

--
Matthew
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