Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 19:12:00 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, pst@shockwave.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vnode_if.sh Message-ID: <199509120212.TAA03665@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 95 11:50:00 %2B1000." <199509120150.LAA01516@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>I'm against continuing the anti-ansi mood >>we should go to full prototyping asap. >>no-one makes compilers that can't handle that any more.... > >I am doing the work to go to full prototyping. This involved adding >hundreds, if not thousands, of prototypes (a trivial step) and involves >fixing thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the type mismatches and >bogus casts (a not so trivial step). Minimal support for pre-ansi >compilers involves using __P(()) in prototype declarations (a trivial >step), avoiding the use of new-style function declarations (this would >be too much trouble except most of our code already avoids them). >Complete support would include casting function args to a correct type >if the default would be wrong. I won't attempt that. Passing 0 for a >null pointer works on some machines. Sounds good, but please don't commit these changes just now. I'm already having an impossible time bringing in to 2.1 various needed bugfixes. Give me another week or two, PLEASE. -DG
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