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Re: different CVS_SERVER for different hosts


From: Paul Edwards
Subject: Re: different CVS_SERVER for different hosts
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:42:32 GMT

"Derek Robert Price" <derek@ximbiot.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2717.1067440440.21628.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
> | Breaking C89 guidelines is, well, something I usually don't care.. I am
> |
> |a former C++ programmer and this gave me some real bad habits--or good,
> |depends on how you're seeing it ;-)
>
> Well, it isn't much fun, but CVS aims to be as portable as possible and

It's completely full of Unix/Posix functions which stop it being
compiled on any 100% C89 compiler.

> thus programming for a freestanding C89 compiler, as per the directions

I thought it needed to work on a K&R C compiler?  Is there no
longer a requirement for the K&R function definitions?

BFN.  Paul.




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