Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:56:47 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <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: <9138.810856607@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Sep 1995 09:24:45 PDT." <199509111624.JAA11339@precipice.shockwave.com>
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> Maybe it's time to ask the general question: > > Why do we care about non-ansi compilers? Roll back the clock about 2 years and you'll find a similar thread, except it was me saying "Why do we care about non-ansi compilers?" that time and Terry on the other end arguing passionately for K&R compatability just in case we decided to do that long awated 6809 port of FreeBSD and were stuck with pcc or something as the only available compiler. I say fiddlesticks - we should go to full c++ style prototypes and obey only those sylististic conventions necessary to making things like `ctags' work. That's about as far as I think it's necessary to go with "backwards compatability" in source code. Jordan
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