On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:51:15PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 11:25 AM -0700 10/21/04, Bill Coffman wrote: > >I read somewhere that the requirement for parrot code is that it > >should be compliant with the ANSI C'89 standard. Can someone point me > >to a description of the C89 spec, so I can make sure my reg_alloc.c > >patch is C89 compliant? > > I don't think the ANSI C89 spec is freely available, though I may be > wrong. (Google didn't find it easily, but I don't always get along > well with Google) If the patch builds without warning with parrot's > standard switches then you should be OK. (ANSI C89 was the first big > rev of C after the original K&R C. If you've got the second edition > or later of the K&R C book, it uses the C89 spec)
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