[IRCServices Coding] Compiler issues

Finny Merrill griever at t2n.org
Sat Sep 14 11:32:07 PDT 2002


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.