On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:45:15AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > 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.
Then it won't build on Solaris 2.6, HP-UX 10.20, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, and maybe AIX 4.3.3. Newer compilers are not available for these platforms. > >> 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 :-) Is it really worth it? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
