The following reply was made to PR pkg/37555; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37555: textproc/gsed
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:28:48 +0100

 On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:10:00PM +0000, Gilles Dauphin wrote:
 > >Description:
 > use c99 because of 'bool' in regex.c
 
 bool is not strictly C99, it is also part of newer POSIX. It is just a
 typedef in a header anyway. I don't think requiring a C99 compiler is a
 good fix.
 
 Joerg