Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch

[Paul Eggert]

"Paul Edwards" <address@hidden> writes:

>> "it is
>> better to spend your time adding features that will be useful on GNU
>> and GNU/Linux, rather than on supporting other incompatible systems."
>
> In this case the work has already been done.

No it hasn't.  The patch would break diff3 on POSIX systems, would
make the code harder to read with extra #ifs, and isn't autoconfized.
A lot more work would have to be done before the patch would be
acceptable.

At this point we should probably just give it a rest.  Perhaps once
you've ported more stuff to MVS you can build up a porting library
that you can reuse, one that entails minimal changes to the upstream
sources.