Re: [Flex-devel] Does Flex still need K&R support?

[Aaron S. <aa...@se...>]

I think C89 should be the new minimum requirement, and code should be  
C99-clean (for example, C99 disallows functions used before their  
prototype declaration to assume 'int' argument types).

Aaron


On Oct 18, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Will Estes wrote:

> I don't have strong felings either way, but I would say that insisting
> on ANSI C is pretty reasonable these days.
>
> On Friday, 17 October 2008, 11:41 am -0400, Joe Krahn <kr...@ni... 
> > wrote:
>
>> I added M4 macros to my modified skeleton to handle C and C++  
>> functions
>> with a single macro, instead of one macro for each argument count  
>> to add
>> the reentrant argument. The idea was to simplify the skeleton body by
>> having better M4 macros.
>>
>> My current implementation is derived from Bison's macros. It doesn't
>> look as pretty here because Flex uses double brackets, and results  
>> in a
>> syntax that is not really nicer looking than the previous method. It
>> will be easier to simplify the macros if K&R support is dropped. Does
>> anyone in the world still need it? If so, they can always use an  
>> older
>> release of Flex.
>>
>> Joe
>>
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