On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:10:17PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote: > DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ dropping C89 functions ] > > What would that buy us? I mean, aside from the obvious "less to > > maintain" reason? > > Less to maintain is all I was hoping for. I think the configure > scripts (both libiberty's and gcc's) could be simplified quite a bit > if we assumed a C89 compliant runtime library, as could libiberty.h > and system.h.
Any retro people out there still trying to run SunOS 4.x? Other than that I can't think of any non-C89 systems people might be using.
