Subject: Re: C Language Standard(s)
To: None <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 12/19/1995 18:29:08
>>>>> "EB" == Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk> writes:
>>>>> "dM" == der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> writes:
EB> Is there any "official" decision about the use of ISO/ANSI standard C
EB> in NetBSD?
dM> For the most part, we're already using it.
However, completely new code written with ANSI C function definitions is
getting converted to old-style on the way into the source tree. I find
this disgusting: it's been 6 years since the ANSI C standard was
approved, and yet we're still afraid of using reasonable C constructs?
[I would guess that there are also probably places where useful standard
C syntax or features would simplify code or eliminate ugly #ifdef's.]
==John