Subject: Re: C Language Standard(s)
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/22/1995 10:26:05
Bill Sommerfeld writes:
> Can someone please name a processor which is interesting and powerful
> enough to want to run NetBSD *AND* which doesn't have an ANSI C
> compiler *AND* which can't run tools like "unproto" to convert ANSI C
> prototypes into old-style definitions?

Or which can't have another machine run "unproto" and can't be cross
compiled to and can't run GCC.

> As best I can tell, "pure" K&R C is, for all practical purposes, dead;
> we should not limit ourselves to the K&R subset of ANSI C -- it's far
> too error prone. 

I am starting to agree with this.

Perry