>>>>> On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:

>    Well, actually, we seem to use ANSI C; we don't use any GNU
>    extensions other than long long that I know of.  Nor should we;
>    other compilers may be better or freer, later, and gratuitous
>    dependancies are evil.

> actually, quite a bit of our source tree depends on extensions
> that gcc provides.  ktrace uses one.  a lot of the 'asm' parts
> of the kernel and userland are another.

And let's not forget the ANSI prototypes but K&R declarations, which
works with GCC, but would probably break on any other ANSI C compiler
(if we actually do pass any shorts or floats).



Tom Pavel

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
pavel@slac.stanford.edu                 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~pavel/