ANSIfication patches
Thomas Dickey
dickey at radix.net
Fri Feb 18 13:24:01 PST 2005
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:20:55PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> There are a few patches sitting in bugzilla regarding converting old ugly
> K&R-style code to ANSI:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2560
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2566
>
> What are the issues to look out for here? Can we pretty much assume that
> non-API code is safe to convert and that the only dangerous areas would be
mostly - but even non-API code has internal interfaces.
> (say) Xlib? And how does the implicit argument passing convention for K&R
> differ from ANSI? (Probably assumes 32-bit width everywhere, which really
> only matters for float/double...)
http://invisible-island.net/ansification/index.html
> I'd really like for gcc to never tell me "function declaration is not a
> prototype" ever again.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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