Re: Portablity bug in base64.c

[Larry Jones]

Paul Eggert writes:
> 
> That change is obviously safe, but why is it needed?  Gnulib assumes
> C89, and the preprocessors that you mention don't conform to C89.

It isn't absolutely needed, but I'd argue that it's desirable.  The cost
of the change is exceeding low -- it doesn't make the code any harder to
read or any less maintainable -- and it eliminates an essentially
gratuitious incompatibility with a compiler that is otherwise perfectly
acceptable.  The big benefit is that it fixes the immediate problem now
as opposed to waiting for the autoconf change to percolate out into the
world.

-Larry Jones

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