Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 03:23:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>, freebsd-audit@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whois(1) patch Message-ID: <20010622032318.A506@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010531182606.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>; from mheffner@novacoxmail.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:26:06PM -0400 References: <B73C05FD.BD5%mike@q9media.com> <XFMail.20010531182606.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:26:06PM -0400, Mike Heffner wrote: > On 31-May-2001 Mike Barcroft wrote: > | > | I originally made the ANSI C change to silence a warning, but is there any > | reason not to bring the code up to ANSI C spec? Is it likely that anyone > | will need to compile whois with a K&R compiler? > > It's not likely, but I'm not sure on what the consensus is on ANSI-fication. > Technically, style(9) says it shouldn't be done in this case, but people > (myself included) have been removing K&R support in small patches like this > one. And I strongly wish you guys would *STOP* doing that. > I think there was also talk of doing a full sweep to remove __P. Yes. Lets plan for a sweep in 6mo. or so and make the conversion. Many of us don't want the CSRG derived sources in various forms -- they should be kept consistent. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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