Re: K&R C (was Re: Bugs in enhanced mode)

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

>>
>> No.  Look at the actual definition of these functions, still conserved
>> from the K&R days, through both ANSI/ISO C standards, and still valid
>> for a current Linux box:
>>
>>       int putchar(int c);
>>
>> That argument is an int, not a char, for exactly the reasons we're
>> discussing here.
>>
>
> Really?!  A function called "putchar" whose argument is an "int" 
> rather than "char"?  Nice. 


Would this be a tolerable hack?  Define a special type in some header 
for char's as function arguments

/* Throwback to K&R */
#ifdef __STDC__
#define ACHAR char
#else
#define ACHAR int
#endif

do_enh_writec(ACHAR c)

Hopefully there aren't too many, and it might be fairly easy to search 
them out, e.g.,

grep char */* > junk
xemacs junk
(in xemacs search for '\nchar' because function arguments start in first 
column)

.....

Anyway, is gnuplot.texi a generated file?  (I see something called 
doc2texi.el)  If so, should it be in the cvsignore list so that it isn't 
checked out when getting the latest CVS version?

Dan