Subject: Re: K&R vs. ANSI call conventions (was Re: a new KNF)
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/17/2000 10:49:15
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Noriyuki Soda wrote:

: But changing functions to ANSI style makes examination by "gcc -pendantic"
: impossible. This is the problem, since number of library functions 
: continuously increase.

I don't understand this statement.  If we use ANSI function definitions, the
code in /usr/lib/*.so WILL NOT CHANGE.  Programs outside the libraries see
only ANSI prototypes.  What, then, breaks using gcc -pedantic?

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)