On Tue, 27 May 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> I have seen the "bootstraps are harder" argument before, and I'm not
> sure I buy it.
> 
> 1) If you are trying to port NetBSD to a platform there must
> be some version of GCC that works on it.

Why `must' there be?

> 2) There is always unproto available if need be for bootstrap.

Running unproto is harder than doing nothing at all.

To be more direct, I see little reason to disturb the current style guide,
and none at all if C9X will sanely support K&R-style functions with
ANSI-style prototypes.

--scott