Re: coreutils-6.5: yet another C89 problem

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Jim Meyering 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. [snip] ...at any rate I still run into this sort of
> > thing often enough that non-c89 code is annoying.
>
> Don't worry.  Support for pre-C99 compilers won't go away soon, but it may
> continue to lag.  I was simply explaining why (too few people care)
> I'm not investing the time to cater proactively to such systems.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Maybe it would help if someone occasionally did builds with gcc's 
strict-c89 mode (or at least turned on the specific c89-related 
warnings)? I don't know if any automated builds happen, but it seems 
like gcc should be able to at least help out in this department.

--
Matthew
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