From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 6 19:41:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07119 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:41:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07107 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-119.camalott.com [208.229.74.119]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA01081; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:42:20 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01590; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:40:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:40:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808070240.VAA01590@detlev.UUCP> To: tlambert@primenet.com CC: Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, tlambert@primenet.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808070133.SAA24688@usr06.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:33:05 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808070133.SAA24688@usr06.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I also know that FreeBSD uses ANSI constructs, which make the > code non-portable to older compilers, such as those you would > have on machines running older OS's that you want to upgrade > to running FreeBSD via a port. Although many compilers are considerably more K&R friendly, so you could bootstrap in many (not all) cases. -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message