Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do any of you know of platforms for which that would not work? > I.e., for which there is a useful (or better, `essential') compiler > lacking such support?
GCC 2.95.3 is still the C compiler for OpenBSD 3.6 (released November 2004), and it doesn't support declarations after statements. So OpenBSD 3.6 users would have to install their own C compiler, or upgrade to OpenBSD 3.7 (released May of this year). Installing their own compiler might be tricky for some non-x86 hosts. The only OpenBSD host I have regular access to is still running OpenBSD 3.4, so it couldn't build a declarations-after-statements coreutils unless I also installed a newer GCC there. The main undergraduate-computing cluster I use, ugrad.cs.ucla.edu, is still running Solaris 8 with Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3. This compiler doesn't support declarations after statements (as that feature wasn't introduced until Forte Developer 7 C 5.4). I've tried to have them upgrade that compiler more than once, but haven't succeeded yet. At my request GCC is also installed on that host (version 3.3.4), but the admins prefer to use Sun cc to build the stuff they install, so they couldn't easily install coreutils. (On the other hand, if coreutils required C99 perhaps I could finally talk them into upgrading their compiler....) > I don't know of an automatic c99-to-c89 translator... If it's just declarations-after-statements, and it's all your own code so that you can assume your own indenting style, then perhaps you could write a simple translator of your own. That's how L. Peter Deutsch got dragooned into writing ansi2knr.c lo these many years ago. It turned into a bigger task than he thought it would, though. Personally I'm glad that ansi2knr.c is now dead as a dodo. The only GNU project I know that assumes C99 is glibc, but it assumes GCC as well, which is pretty strong. Sorry to throw so much cold water on the idea, but cold water is my specialty sometimes.... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
