Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:12:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> To: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> Cc: standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libstand functions not ansi-c compiliant Message-ID: <20050609115516.K35479@fw.reifenberger.com> In-Reply-To: <20050608164134.GC17962@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> References: <20050608094851.D29843@fw.reifenberger.com> <20050608103045.GC16848@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> <20050608124306.X30581@fw.reifenberger.com> <20050608125416.GA17962@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> <20050608152614.H31265@fw.reifenberger.com> <20050608164134.GC17962@wombat.fafoe.narf.at>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:41:38 +0200
> From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>
> To: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com>
> Cc: standards@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: libstand functions not ansi-c compiliant
>
>>> I'd consider including <stdio.h> from sys/boot/ficl a bug.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe. Thats debatable.
>> But by default ficl.h (coming with ficl4)does inslude <stdio.h>
>> and ficl4 says about itself: ...Ficl is written in strict ANSI C...
>> Unfortunately <stdio.h> is part of ANSI-C...
>> So one cant blame ficl4 for that.
>
> No, but a boot loader is not a hosted implementation. Ficl needs to be
> patched to use our I/O functions.
>
Ok. Back to the original question:
Is there a technical reason that the declaration and implementation of
putchar, vprintf and vsprintf in stand.h should NOT conform to ANSI-C respective
is there a technical reason these functions MUST return void?
Bye/2
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