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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com
Subject: Re: /usr/include/ftpio.h is not C++ safe
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nadav@barcode.co.il
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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