Aharon Robbins wrote: > Hi All. > >>From an older mail thread: > >> Maybe by the time dfa.c is ready, gnulib's policy will permit at least >> C89+declaration-after-stmt. > > There remain systems for which neither a vendor C99 compiler nor GCC > are available.
Some non-C99 vendor compilers have a way to enable features like decl-after-stmt. If the people stuck with such a compiler can find the right options, enabling them via configure tests may be an option. > But I don't think I'm getting anywhere with this issue. So, I will quote > from an email sent to me from one of my porters to such systems and then > I won't have any more to say on the matter. > >> the people who need free software the most are almost always stuck on >> old out of date systems. > > Food for thought, anyway. :-) Don't sweat it. At least not yet. At worst they'll have to apply a patch. Perhaps among all your old-system-afflicted testers you will find someone motivated enough to write/maintain the eventual c99-to-c89 patch.
