From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18651 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2003 14:25:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 18643 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 14:25:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO executor.cambridge.redhat.com) (213.86.99.237) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2003 14:25:42 -0000 Received: from cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com (vpn50-15.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.15]) by executor.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E233BABAF8; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:25:40 +0100 (BST) Received: (from aph@localhost) by cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id h3AEPdq04366; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:25:39 +0100 From: Andrew Haley MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16021.32483.528431.369019@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:31:00 -0000 To: mark@codesourcery.com Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Converting to ISO C89 In-Reply-To: <200303250642.h2P6gZ4r025932@doubledemon.codesourcery.com> References: <200303250642.h2P6gZ4r025932@doubledemon.codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00422.txt.bz2 Mark Mitchell writes: > > The SC has finally finished voting on ISO C89 conversion. (The > mailing list for the SC experienced some problems, which caused things > to bog down a bit.) > > The verdict is in: it is OK to assume ISO C89 in all code in GCC > proper. (In other words, libiberty and/or other libraries are not > affected.) > > So, patches to do ISO C conversions on the mainline are hereby > pre-approved with one caveat: I would appreciate it if people would > wait until GCC 3.3 is out the door. The reason is that we're still > applying a lot of patches to both branches, and that process is tricky > enough without creating a lot of spurious merge conflicts. I take it that new patches which are written in ISO C may be applied to the 3.3 branch. Andrew.