Subject: Re: ANSI vs. K&R
To: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-misc
Date: 03/12/1999 16:13:01
> The best long-term solution for this problem is to write a new backend
> for gcc that emits K&R C, and treat the old compiler as the assembler
> pass. Then you can use those archaic compilers if you have to (that
> is, until the gcc port is ready) without kludging up the source.
gcc appears to include programs named "protoize" and "unprotoize"; we
don't currently build them or install them, and there doesn't appear
to be documentation for them in the tree, but unprotoize might be what
you're looking for..
- Bill