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From: "drepper at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-bugs-regex@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [Bug regex/1220] regex uses old-style definitions that cause g++ to fail
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906181031.12275.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050820072603.1220.eggert@gnu.org>


------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2005-09-06 18:10 -------
> These days there's no longer any reason for regex to use K&R function
> definition syntax,

Wrong.  Using K&R function definitions ensures that the compiler warns about
missing prototypes.  This is finer grained than a compiler can achieve this.

It is simply wrong to use g++ to compile regex.c.  Period.

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1220

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-20  7:26 [Bug regex/1220] New: " eggert at gnu dot org
2005-08-20  7:26 ` [Bug regex/1220] " eggert at gnu dot org
2005-08-20  7:28 ` eggert at gnu dot org
2005-08-20  7:32 ` eggert at gnu dot org
2005-08-21  0:25 ` eggert at gnu dot org
2005-08-23 18:28 ` eggert at gnu dot org
2005-08-31 22:43 ` eggert at gnu dot org
2005-09-06 18:04 ` drepper at redhat dot com
2005-09-06 18:11 ` drepper at redhat dot com [this message]
2006-04-19 17:43 ` bruno at clisp dot org
2006-04-19 17:44 ` bruno at clisp dot org
2006-04-25 18:01 ` drepper at redhat dot com

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