Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wouldn't it be better to move the glibc source code to ANSI C?
I think so, yes. I don't know why Roland and Ulrich prefer K&R style
function definitions in some cases. They do have a reason, but I
didn't understand it when Roland briefly tried to expla
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How about this additional patch?
Thanks. I installed the patch to modules/strnlen, but omitted the
changes to comments in config/srclist.txt, since that part of
srclist.txt catalogs code that is not taken from glibc.
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> (__strndup): Revert to K&R-style function dfns, the glibc style.
Huh? We know the problems of K&R-style function definitions: arguments
of type 'float', 'short' and 'char' are implicitly promoted, leading to
a clash with the function prototype. Empty argument lists allow
Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Compiling [Bison] 2.1 gives:
>
> ../../lib/getopt.c:127: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> ../../lib/quotearg.c:591: warning: comparison is always false due to limited
> range of data type
> ../../lib/strndup.c:39: warning: no previous prototyp
