On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:14 AM, <arn...@skeeve.com> wrote: > Hi Paul. > > Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > >> I also installed the attached patch 2, which ports the resulting dfa.c >> to C90; as I understand it Gawk still needs this. > > Thanks for this. You're correct, although at some point I'll move to C99. > > You still need this additional change to fully move to C90.
Hi Arnold, Would you please accelerate gawk's conversion to C99? I won't undo these changes, but really feel like I should. This is tricky code, and making it even ever-so-slightly less readable/maintainable goes against the best interests of all of us. And for what benefit? Only to support those rare few who maintain museum pieces and/or are unwilling to install a modern compiler.
