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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: cdrom boot?
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:06:34 -0700 (MST)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at,
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In-Reply-To: <199611220731.SAA15958@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 22, 96 06:31:37 pm
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> >I played a little bit with bcc yesterday and found out, that the
> >version I have only supports K&R standard. Is this right? Is there
> >any converter available which converts ANSI-C to K&R?
> 
> Yes.  None that I know of.  Ask Joerg to convert biosboot back to K&R :-).
> Then you can copy it for more than half the code.

Thank you, gentlemen; you have provided me with the first irrefutable
example of why prototypes should be conditional in all cases.

For non-ANSI compilers, people generating new code should continue to
use cdefs.h.  If you have need of cdefs.h varradic declaration
macros... I have them.  Let me know.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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