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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: 90's compilers
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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>> Unfortunately there is too much old code out there to do everything
>> consistently and right.  E.g., compiling dmenu with full ANSI and
>> other warnings:

>Hmmmm.  I had forgotten about -traditional, as well.  I suppose at
>the very least, _P() is still necessary.  Ugh and puke!

It isn't.  strsed.c is just too old to have prototypes (hidden by __P(())
in the non-ANSI case or raw).

Using -traditional for only some sources would defeat half of the point
of using an ANSI compiler and would be difficult to manage.

Bruce