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[Bug regex/1220] regex uses old-style definitions that cause g++ to fail


------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2005-09-06 18:10 -------
> These days there's no longer any reason for regex to use K&R function
> definition syntax,

Wrong.  Using K&R function definitions ensures that the compiler warns about
missing prototypes.  This is finer grained than a compiler can achieve this.

It is simply wrong to use g++ to compile regex.c.  Period.

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1220

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