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Date:      Tue, 6 May 1997 13:10:39 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nadav@barcode.co.il
Subject:   Re: /usr/include/ftpio.h is not C++ safe
Message-ID:  <199705060310.NAA25324@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>What is our reason for having old code around?  Is there a GOOD reason
>why we are trying to support a non-ansi compiler?  What is the chance that
>FreeBSD will ever need to do this in real life?

To support users who have old code.  FreeBSD doesn't support ANSI compilers,
only gcc (try compiling with lcc) :-).

Bruce



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