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Re: gdb and iso-c
- To: shebs at apple dot com
- Subject: Re: gdb and iso-c
- From: dan at cgsoftware dot com (Daniel Berlin+list.gdb)
- Date: 24 Mar 2000 14:11:19 -0500
- Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm at macqel dot be>, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200003241301.OAA04488@mail.macqel.be> <38DBB76D.65C58273@apple.com>
- Reply-To: dan at cgsoftware dot com
Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes:
> Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Indeed, I sent our results back to RMS, saying that there didn't seem to
> be any reason not to change the GNU coding standards for all GNU tools,
> including GCC and binutils. I don't know if he actually made the
> change though.
>
> So I think we've been sufficiently careful to ascertain whether the
> modernization was justified, and there is no good reason to try to revive
> K&R compat and the additional complexity that goes along with it. In fact,
> I've been a little disappointed that people haven't gone through random source
> files, and simplified their sources by stripping out all the now-unneeded
> K&R compat bits.
I've been waiting till the branch gets cut, but i plan on going
through at least the non-target dependent files and doing that.
>
> Stan