[ On Mon, June 19, 1995 at 12:24:02 (-0700), Bakul Shah wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Assming char == signed char? 
>
>[....]
> How does ANSI-isms make the x-compile harder?  Since you are
> not going to run the kernel on other systems, you can make
> it fully ANSIfied and prevents dumb errors.
>[....]

ANSI doesn't truely make it easier to prevent dumb errors.  Good
compilers and lint checkers do though.  In fact, fully ANSIified C won't
protect against the worst dumb mistakes.  Only a very thorough C
compiler, or a simple lint checker, can do that.

> One option is to religiously use cond. compile on function
> definitions as well so that you can get the benefit of an
> ANSI compiler's stricter type checking.  When the flag day
> arrives you can just throw out the ugly prototype related
> macros.

Oh, gross, ugly, unecessary, horrible idea!

K.I.S.S., *please*!  There's no loss in using the traditional style
definitions.  It's only a few more characters to type.....

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