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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 02:58:28 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
Subject: Re: netdb.h and -traditional.
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>I was attempting to compile some older non-ANSI programs, that
>require the -traditional option on GCC.
>
>Unfortunately, netdb.h (and possibly other headers) use ANSI
>keywords (notably - 'const') which breaks this.

ANSI keywords are supposed to be defined away for non-ANSI compilers
unless NON_ANSI_KEYWORDS is defined.  However, this is broken for
gcc -traditional.  A comment in <sys/cdefs.h> seems to say that this
is intentional.

>Should our header files be compilable by non-ANSI compilers?

Not for much longer.

Bruce