Re: fts: make find *much* faster on dirent.d_type-challenged FS

[Karl Berry]

    Do most compilers out there really support
    decl-after-stmt (not likely?!), 

In compiling the binaries for TeX Live, where we try to use fairly old
compilers and systems, the only platform which had problems with
decl-after-stmt was v5 of the IBM C compiler for AIX 4.3.  There are
various reasons why the person who does those builds doesn't want to use
gcc, but for GNU packages, it seems like we could reasonably ask people
to use gcc instead of IBM C.

On the other hand, I thought I remembered seeing some previous mail
about not requiring C99 in general.  So we consider decl-after-stmt an
exception to this?