gdb and iso-c

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:47:19PM +0100, Guenther Grau wrote:
>All major operating systems I know come with a reasonable modern
>iso-c compiler (or at least you can get one for it). And even if
>this weren't the case, you can always crosscompile gdb on a different
>platform (This feature needs more testing anyways ;-)

That was more-or-less the rationale for moving gdb towards a newer
standard.  You obviously can't do this with gcc or binutils since they
may need to be compiled on a system which only has K&R.

cgf