Re: 3.81 ... any dates for release

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "J. Grant" <address@hidden> writes:

  jg> Will this release be ISO C90 GNU Make?  With other packages such
  jg> as binutils standardising on C90 I am interested to know if
  jg> anything is in the pipeline plan for Make.

  >> "C90" GNU make?  Is "C90" some shorthand for some version of the
  >> POSIX standard I'm unaware of?  I thought "C90" was shorthand for
  >> the 1989 ANSI C (nee 1990 ISO C) standard?

  jg> Sure it is the C programming language, 1990 standardised verison;
  jg> surprised you did not know that by default.  Therefore, any plans
  jg> for C90 compliance in GNU Make source?

Oh I see what you're asking.  Based on wording "ISO C90 GNU Make" I
thought you were asking if 3.81 was going to implement the C90 standard
for make; obviously C90 doesn't have a standard for make.


The move to C90 function definitions is already complete in CVS, if
that's what you mean.  However, the system uses the ansi2knr toolkit so
it hopefully will still build with at least some pre-ISO compilers.

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