K&R C requirement for binutils now dropped

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Fri Jun 13 13:27:00 GMT 2003


> Hi Guys,
> 
>   Now that the 2.14 binutils release is out we are ready to drop the
>   requirement that all binutils code should be in the K&R dialect of
>   C.  So from now on, patches that conform to ISO C89 will be
>   accepted for the mainline sources.  The current branches will remain
>   K&R.
> 
>   Patches that upgrade the current K&R sources to ISO C89 will also be
>   considered, and accepted if they conform to the normal patch
>   submission requirements.  (ie that they work, they do not introduce
>   non-FSF copyrighted or patented code).

You'll want to steal KevinB's PARAMS ripper outer script.

Ya!!!

Andrew




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