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

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

Daniel J Sebald writes:
[...]

 Daniel, please trim your replies. There is absolutely no point in quoting
 the whole previous message in your reply, please show some consideration.
 
> 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?
 
 Yes, it's a generated file. I'd like to leave it in cvs because some
 people  may not have some form of emacs installed, and because .texi
 is a generic format that many other forms of documentation can be derived
 from.

Allin Cottrell writes:
[...] 
> How many people are there in the world who refuse to use an ISO/ANSI C
> compiler, but who want to be able to compile the latest and greatest
> gnuplot?

 It's not a question of refusal. Some systems out there have K&R compilers
 only, if they come with a compiler at all, and cannot be upgraded for
 some reason.

 That said, we should move to ISO/ANSI C, and let ansi2knr sort it out.
 As Lucas and myself recently found it, tis in turn will require a few
 changes in the code.