[Bug-gnulib] K&R C or ANSI C89 ?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

One of the major differences between the gnulib/lib and the
gettext/lib is the K&R C issue: gnulib has already converted some
files to ANSI C, whereas gettext has attempted to stick with K&R C for
a long time, so that the intl directory, as included in GCC, could
build with SunOS 4 cc and HP-UX cc.

In evaluating whether to drop K&R C compatibility from gettext and
gnulib/lib (think of PARAMS), or whether to reintroduce K&R C in
gnulib/lib, I have some questions:

- Does anyone have a guess when GCC will drop K&R C compatibility
  (i.e. require an ANSI C compiler for bootstrapping)?

- What other K&R C compatibility requirements, except for GCC, exist?

- Has anyone recently built gettext with a compiler not supporting
  function prototypes? (I have lost my SunOS 4 access a few months
  ago.) I heard Jim had an armada of old Unix boxes?

Bruno