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)