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Date:      Thu, 8 Oct 2015 10:28:26 -0500
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        cem@freebsd.org
Cc:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r289027 - head/contrib/tzcode/stdtime
Message-ID:  <CAJ5_RoBMPTrb2m4A_L79D8vHrPCew9BR-%2B9VrPGe0mx=tj_1dw@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <201510081142.t98BgFJd028821@repo.freebsd.org> <561666CE.1050608@FreeBSD.org> <CAG6CVpWxTv3p376LUmALiOBAhmCQGaraTniQ23ELFU3K=Rza6A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On 08/10/2015 14:42, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> >>      Assume C89.
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/400ecf36bb0b73f6390f9641e6cb8bbfb91a5cfd
> >
> > What if one day github disappears but FreeBSD is still going?
> > The full commit message would be lost.
>
> Looking at the full commit message on Github, nothing of value was lost.
>

Would have been nice to know if it was "Assume C89, because K&R is dead" or
"Assume C89, because we still have to work on crippled platforms even
though C99 has been out for 15 years", though.  (The code makes it clear
it's the former.)

-Ben



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