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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: `const char rcsid[]' vs -traditional
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>> Many sources no longer compile with non-ANSI compilers because they
>> begin with

>> 	const char rcsid[] = ...

>So?

It's broken for non-ANSI compilers.  The correct way to fix this is to
move the declarations after the #includes so that <sys/cdefs.h> happens
to be included, but this is too large a change for me.

It's inconsistent with the care taken in other parts of the sources.
E.g., /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getosreldate.c, which was written by someone
named wollman, begins with a `const char rcsid[]' but then uses an ugly
`#if __STDC__' to use a new-style header for ANSI compilers without
(further) breaking things for non-ANSI compilers.

Bruce