[IRCServices Coding] Compiler issues

Finny Merrill griever at t2n.org
Sat Sep 14 12:06:48 PDT 2002


On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Finny Merrill wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
> 
> >      I will add a feature to configure to allow overriding the 2.96 check,
> > but if you experience any problems then you're on your own.
> > 
> >      Incidentally, Services is ANSI-compliant as far as I have been able to
> > tell, except possibly for restrictions on pointer aliasing, which I
> > personally consider a bug in the standard and have no intention of
> > correcting.  (Among many other things, aliasing makes lists much easier to
> > implement, and therefore less likely to have bugs.  The C99 "restrict"
> > keyword is a much better way to address the issue, and ordinary pointers
> > should have been left alone.)
> 
> Elaborate please?
> 
> Also, I am very sure that services is not ansi-compliant at all.
> 

I take that back. Now that I think about it, it's not really that true.

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