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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:39:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Cc:        bde@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vnode_if.sh
Message-ID:  <199509111839.LAA03668@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509111624.JAA11339@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Sep 11, 95 09:24:45 am

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I'm against continuing the anti-ansi mood
we should go to full prototyping asap.
no-one makes compilers that can't handle that any more....


> 
> Maybe it's time to ask the general question:
> 
> 	Why do we care about non-ansi compilers?
> 
> Almost every compiler out there today can handle ansi definitions.
> For people engaging in bootstrap/porting, they can always use ansi2knr.
> 
> Let's just settle on one standard.  I don't care which,  but I wish to
> hell we'd just answer the general question first.
> 
> Paul
> 
>   From: Bruce Evans <bde@freefall.freebsd.org>
>   Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vnode_if.sh
>   bde         95/09/11 09:05:17
>   
>     Modified:    sys/kern  vnode_if.sh
>     Log:
>     Generate prototypes for VOP functions.  I decided to keep the old-style
>     definitions even though the functions are inline.  If vnode_if.h was
>     compiled by a non-ANSI compiler, then `inline' would be defined away,
>     so vnode_if.h might compile correctly.
> 




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