Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Suggested change to ACC compiler Message-ID: <3437@ast.cs.vu.nl> Date: 29 Sep 89 20:05:46 GMT References: <3196@ast.cs.vu.nl> <531@sirius.ua.oz.au> <1613@draken.nada.kth.se> <3249@ast.cs.vu.nl> <2217@ditsyda.oz> Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 9 In article <2217@ditsyda.oz> evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans) writes: >If you don't do a complete job on them, it is misleading to pretend they >are implemented, not much better than putting -Dconst= etc. in the cc >driver. You are probably right. It may be convenient to have const etc recognized, so if the ANSI compiler is too big, we will probably put in a flag to enable/disable recognizing non K&R constructions. I'll think about it. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)