From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Robert Lipe Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" , Subject: Re: sun/os as release candidate was: Removal of V2 code Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:59:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20001120114731.F9451@rjlhome.sco.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00906.html On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Robert Lipe wrote: > Someone that cares about K&R could step up to the plate to add a cron > job to do a nightly (or whatever) build on such a system. Exactly. And if there's none left who cares about K&R, well, than at some point in the future we should decide that this requirement will go away. > Does anyone other than HP even still provide a K&R-only compiler? If > so, since there are binary kits of GCC available for that target, has > the time come for us to relax the K&R restriction for bootstrapping GCC > completely? Personally, I wouldn't mind very much... (But we shouldn't do this lightly and really check that no platforms in use break.) Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/