Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs

[Paul Eggert]

Dave Love <address@hidden> writes on June 5:

> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> > But since nobody really uses K&R any more (except perhaps in
> > computer museums), this is not really a practical issue now.
> 
> I thought that HPUX came with only K&R and that people actually relied
> on that, but I don't know the current state of play.

Yes, HP-UX still ships a bundled K&R cc for free, but almost everybody
uses that only to install gcc; or they pay HP for an ANSI C compiler.
This is because almost every package other than Emacs now requires
ANSI C.  Even GCC now requires ANSI C, as of a few months ago.  To
build GCC on HP-UX you first have to bootstrap with an older GCC, or
with HP's ANSI C compiler.

> I also thought a surprising number of people still ran sunos4

A few people still run SunOS 4.x for one reason or another, but almost
nobody develops or builds new software on it.  Nobody wants the latest
Emacs version to run on it.  I just searched deja.com, and the most
recent report I found on the subject was Volker Borchert's 1999 Usenet
article, which said "(NOTE: don't use GNU emacs-20.x on a
Sparc-1/1+/2, it's waaay too slooooow)"; see
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7la3t9%24ff1%40Zeus.teknon.de>.
That is why SunOS 4.x is not at all worth worrying about for new Emacs
development.

> Anyhow, I'll ask the question about K&R again.

Did you get an answer back?