Your have a powerful argument for supporting argument standards and
avoiding use of features that are ill-conceived or differently
specified by a standard. I will add these points to the document.
However, I believe I still have a strong case for encouraging adoption
of the good features of GNU CC and Libc as new standards and getting
vendors to contribute their optimizations. No one I know really wants
to maintain portability code such as Configure. Our time could be
much better spent. At this point we would be gravely mistaken to
ignore other platforms, but eventually we must move on, as we did when
we abandoned non-ANSI compilers.
Regards.
-John
