From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 28 13:50:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09813 for current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 13:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09805 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 13:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26639 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:50:44 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA24514 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:50:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA08630 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:27:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607282027.WAA08630@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: `const char rcsid[]' vs -traditional To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:27:54 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607281510.BAA23418@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jul 29, 96 01:10:43 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > It is for 4.4BSD. It isn't currently for FreeBSD, because all supported > systems (one :-) have an ANSI compiler. I only object to breaking > backwards compatibility by being sloppy - it should be broken on purpose. I thought we basically agreed in -core when last discussing style(9) that maintaining -traditional K&R compatibility is not one of our major goals. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)