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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2019 13:50:39 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel and most of userland : c : which edition?
Message-ID:  <44sgsy8o40.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <58c53e2e6bc1942004bc9f7fac7d6f80@kathe.in> (Mayuresh Kathe's message of "Tue, 28 May 2019 15:18:47 %2B0530")
References:  <58c53e2e6bc1942004bc9f7fac7d6f80@kathe.in>

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Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> writes:

> which edition of c is-being/has-been used to write the majority of the
> kernel and userland?
> illumos people are mandating c99 for all new code and have heard about
> them taking the efforts to migrate old code to c99 too.
> is there any such movement in coding standards happening in
> freebsd-land too?

See "man 7 style" but the basic gist is that c99 is expected for new
code and that updating older code to c99 is typical practice when
changing that code for other reasons. 



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