Re: [AMD64 1/3] fix C99-style declarations

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 04:23:49 EST


Hi!

> > This has happened more than once in the tree.
> >
> > When all the architectures have a minimum gcc requirement that accepts
> > mixed code and declarations by default, it can be removed ...
>
> Would be my prefered solution. Discourage 2.95.
>
> Sooner or later we have to do that anyways when a bug in 2.95
> is found that breaks code (has happened with all gccs so far).
> Sooner would be better, as supporting 2.95 seems to be already
> a significant mainteance burden.

Well.. except that 2.95 is still two times faster than gcc 3.3 :-(.

Pavel
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