From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 6 19:28:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05149 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05088 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA02971; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:32:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808070232.MAA02971@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions In-Reply-To: <199808070138.SAA01445@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Aug 6, 98 06:38:37 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:32:23 +1000 (EST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > I also know that FreeBSD uses ANSI constructs, which make the > > code non-portable to older compilers, such as those you would > > have on machines running older OS's that you want to upgrade > > to running FreeBSD via a port. > > Seeing as nobody actually seems to want this, it's obviously not of > much interest. ... and these days it seems that the GNU tools get ported to the "older" OS first and you just use them. So unless there is a late rush of people wanting to port FreeBSD to another processor for which GNU tools don't exist, I'd prefer to see the K&R bit dropped in favour of ANSI C and get people to learn to compile things with compiler higher warning levels. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message