Drop OSK [was Re: Configuration options [was: Policy question - to PM3D or not to PM3D?]]

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 03:37 am, Robert Hart wrote:
> 
> There was some investigation about Mircrowave OS9 support (which is
> special cases in some of the data reading code) - I posted a message on
> comp.os.os9 newsgroup. The replies I've got (and my impression from
> reading other posts on the groups is that)
> 
> - if any new version of gnuplot were to be built it would be with gnu
> tools, and therefore special cases probably wouldn't be needed (and
> certainly not for the same functions)
> 
> - nobody is still using gnuplot on that platform (in fact very few
> people are using the platform at all - and mostly for extreme legacy
> stuff - i.e. I can't see them upgrading anyway)
> 
> - the last version of gnuplot to be built was early in the 3.x series
> (possibly 3.1)
> 
> Therefore I think we can drop any #define OSK that are "in the way" -
> and maybe throughout the codebase if somebody feels there is something
> to be gained by that.

OSK is heavily special-cased in gnuplot's built-in readline. This would
clearly be irrelevant if the OSK community has moved to using gnu
libreadline.

The only other places are a malloc() customization in gplt_x11.c and
the previously-discussed variant use of sscanf() in datafile.c.

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