Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ... > The main undergraduate-computing cluster I use, ugrad.cs.ucla.edu, is ...
Thanks for the data points. I feel strongly enough about this that I'll go ahead nonetheless. I expect to provide a patch to convert the initially-few uses of c99-specific constructs to equivalent c89 ones. The manual steps required to build with a pre-c99 compiler will encourage stragglers to obtain/provide a more modern 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 I want *less* work :-) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
