Re: OK, here's the updated "version" splash text

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Lars Hecking wrote:

> 
> > >  cpp analysis shows that TBOOLEAN gets defined to _Bool, which in turn is
> > >  typedef'd to unsigned char.
> > 
> > I revived my access to a Tru64 box, and saw the same thing.  The weird 
> > thing is that if I change the affected function definitions into 
> > ANSI style, the problem goes away.
>  
>  ANSI and K&R compilers differ in how they handle arument promotions.

Sure.  But the case at hand is between an ANSI compiler and itself.

IIRC, the idea was that the presence of a prototype would effectively
eliminate the differences between ANSI and K&R function argument
definitions.

> > That would seem to go against the grain of the whole way gnuplot handles
> > pre-ANSI vs. ANSI C (optional ANSI prototype declarations, but K&R
> > definitions), which seems to be accepted by just about every other
> > compiler on the planet.
> 
>  In fact, half or so of the gnuplot sources already have ANSI function
>  definitions.

Should that many have slipped under my radar?

>  At this point, we should switch to ANSI/ISO C throughout the source
>  (maybe not just now for the new release). 

Right.  That should be the first global change *after* the release.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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