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Re: [Bug-gnulib] nanosleep needs stdbool
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] nanosleep needs stdbool |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:16:12 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Why no option? Since <stdbool.h> is not present in many current systems, I
> cannot see why a package would _not_ want to have the <stdbool.h> substitute.
That may be true today, but it won't be true 10 years from now, when
C89 is obsolete. We might as well cater to the future. It's
reasonable for the default setting of the option to be C89 now, but
eventually it should move to C99.