On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:41:00PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > I don't see any remaining benefit in keeping code "compatible" with
> > old compilers.
> 
> I will note that one of the arguments in favor of retaining
> compatibility with non-ANSI C compilers will pretty much never go away
> with time: NetBSD likes to support "retrocomputing," and bootstrapping
> a port on an old platform can be simpler if you can compile most of
> the code with an old compiler.
> 

Actually, a more logical process IMHO would be:
- get support for this in gcc/binutils if it doesn't already exists
- build a cross-toolchain

If it's a platform which doesn't have a ansi C compiler, it's lilely to be
old, thus slow. Better cross-compile from an alpha or a K6/II for developement
:)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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