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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:40:56 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        tlambert@primenet.com
Cc:        Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, tlambert@primenet.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C and static initialization with unions
Message-ID:  <199808070240.VAA01590@detlev.UUCP>
In-Reply-To: <199808070133.SAA24688@usr06.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:33:05 %2B0000 (GMT))
References:   <199808070133.SAA24688@usr06.primenet.com>

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> 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.

Although many compilers are considerably more K&R friendly, so you
could bootstrap in many (not all) cases.

-- 
Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan
   Fourth law of programming:
   Anything that can go wrong wi
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