Re: dfa.c fix for C89 compilers

[Jim Meyering]

Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi All.
>
>>From an older mail thread:
>
>> Maybe by the time dfa.c is ready, gnulib's policy will permit at least
>> C89+declaration-after-stmt.
>
> There remain systems for which neither a vendor C99 compiler nor GCC
> are available.

Some non-C99 vendor compilers have a way to enable
features like decl-after-stmt.  If the people stuck
with such a compiler can find the right options, enabling
them via configure tests may be an option.

> But I don't think I'm getting anywhere with this issue. So, I will quote
> from an email sent to me from one of my porters to such systems and then
> I won't have any more to say on the matter.
>
>> the people who need free software the most are almost always stuck on
>> old out of date systems.
>
> Food for thought, anyway. :-)

Don't sweat it.  At least not yet.
At worst they'll have to apply a patch.
Perhaps among all your old-system-afflicted testers
you will find someone motivated enough to write/maintain
the eventual c99-to-c89 patch.