%% Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pe> Would you be open to modifying 'make' to use the alloca-opt module
pe> from gnulib? It would kill off most of these warnings, I think.
pe> Other GNU programs use this module so 'make' would be in good
pe> company.
Many warnings appear because GNU make up to and including 3.81 is still
attempting to build properly with old K&R C compilers. That's also the
reason it cannot make use of gnulib modules, since gnulib requires C89.
A few months ago I decided that 3.81 would be the last version that
attempted to support K&R C, and that as of 3.82 GNU make would require a
ISO C (89) compiler. I have several workspaces in which I'm cleaning up
code in the following ways:
* Removing all the PARAMS() macros.
* Changing char to void wherever appropriate.
* Changing from BSD-style functions like bcopy to ISO C functions like
memcpy/memmove.
* Const-ifying as necessary.
And other cleanups. As you can imagine, this will cause a lot of churn
in the code. After it is compiling and working properly for UNIX I'm
planning on creating a 3.81.90 release so that the other ports can make
the appropriate changes to their parts of the code.
At that time it would be a good idea to look through gnulib etc. for
opportunities for re-use.
Thanks!
PS. I checked the gnulib manual on the gnu.org website and there's no
mention of alloca-opt there??
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