Re: CVS commit: basesrc/usr.bin/make

[woods%weird.com@localhost (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On , June 15, 2002 at 18:05:33 (-0400), Perry E. Metzger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/usr.bin/make
>
> 
> itojun%iijlab.net@localhost writes:
> > >Log Message:
> > >Remove !__STDC__ stuff, de-__P(), ANSIfy, and de-register.
> > 
> >     is it safe given that usr.bin/make is used as host tool (tools/make)?
> 
> I suppose the wider question is, do we support non-ANSI compilers for
> host bootstrap? I'd say likely the answer is no -- cross compilation
> isn't something you want to do on your old SunOS 4 machine, you want
> to do it on fairly modern hardware. However, others may disagree.

I personally don't care so much about whether or not an Standard C
compiler is required (I would assume so regardless), but I do very much
dislike some common styles of writing C code as allowed by Std. C.  :-)

Some of these changes do seem quite gratuitious and make comparison with
other derivations of the same code more difficult; though of course most
other groups have made similar (but not identical) style changes, if not
even more drastic style changes.  ;-)

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