Convert prototypes to ISO C90

Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org
Mon Oct 6 10:51:00 GMT 2003


Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> The reason why in many places K&R is used is to get exactly the right
> level of warnings re missing prototypes.  Leave it as is, there is no
> reason to change it.

Another reason is that
  - glibc/intl shouldn't diverge too much from gettext/intl, and
  - gettext/intl needs to support K&R because some packages (most notably GCC)
    have a copy of it included in their source and need to build with HP-UX cc
    and SunOS4 cc.

Bruno



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