RE: C99ism in gzip 1.4 inflate.c

2010-07-19 Thread Jay K
> jim > It looks like you're using gcc. If not, It was gcc 2.95, that the owner had installed and apparently maybe slightly flubbed, lots of warnings about va_list. I'm up to 4.3 now though. alpha-dec-osf4.0g > Why can't you accommodate this tiny part of c99? I figure IF it is C, mi

Re: C99ism in gzip 1.4 inflate.c

2010-07-19 Thread Paul Eggert
For many (most?) packages we assume C99, but gzip may be an exception, as the code is so old and crufty (some of it uses pre-C89 notation!) and this is the only part of it that uses C99 and we perhaps should throw all this stuff out and replace it with calls to zlib and in the meantime it's just as

Re: C99ism in gzip 1.4 inflate.c

2010-07-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/18/2010 06:51 AM, Jay K wrote: >> >> C99ism in gzip 1.4 inflate.c: >> >> >> inflate.c: In function `inflate_codes': >> inflate.c:592: parse error before `unsigned' >> inflate.c:593: `delta' undeclared (first use in this function) >> inflate.c:593: (Each undeclared identifi

Re: C99ism in gzip 1.4 inflate.c

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/18/2010 06:51 AM, Jay K wrote: > > C99ism in gzip 1.4 inflate.c: > > > inflate.c: In function `inflate_codes': > inflate.c:592: parse error before `unsigned' > inflate.c:593: `delta' undeclared (first use in this function) > inflate.c:593: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once