Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 03:46:35 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, rb@gid.co.uk Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nadav@barcode.co.il Subject: Re: /usr/include/ftpio.h is not C++ safe Message-ID: <199705061746.DAA26819@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I have *shitloads* of old code around (mostly in clients' systems) which >breaks in subtle and mysterious ways when naively ported to ANSI C. It >often boils down to ANSI having broken the portability of comparing chars >with constants [don't get me started, it's a couple of years since I had a >good rant about that one :-)]. > >-traditional is a life-saver. gcc -traditional supports prototypes, so this is no argument for __P(()) :-). It's an argument agains __P(()) - it's reasonable for headers to only support the compiler(s) shipped with the system. Bruce
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