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

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

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> 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

Ethan already suggested pretty much the same idea, and I rejected it
as terminally ugly, and not particularly useful.  If the K&R variant
(making the parameter 'int') works at all, it'll work for ANSI C, too.

> 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?

gnuplot.texi is a bit tricky to regenerate.  Up until rather recently,
I never managed to do it myself, because I usually do all builds outside
the source tree, which breaks the generation of gnuplot.texi.
Therefore, even though I'm not quite happy with the situation, I agree
with Lars on this one: it'll have to remain inside CVS for now.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.