Subject: Re: ANSI vs. K&R
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: tech-misc
Date: 03/12/1999 14:42:52
In message <199903122041.PAA05121@small-gods.mit.edu>, Greg Hudson writes:
>I will note that one of the arguments in favor of retaining
>compatibility with non-ANSI C compilers will pretty much never go away
>with time: NetBSD likes to support "retrocomputing," and bootstrapping
>a port on an old platform can be simpler if you can compile most of
>the code with an old compiler.

Are there old platforms we expect to be targeting in the future that you
can't cross-compile effectively for?

-s