From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: status icon support Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:10:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200801120157.m0C1v6WL020654@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85r6gn5lr0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85ir1z5ksh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200147049 8237 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2008 14:10:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, Dan Nicolaescu , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 12 15:11:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JDh4l-0002uN-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:11:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JDh4N-0007Cw-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JDh42-00070O-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JDh41-0006zi-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JDh41-0006zd-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDh3t-0001H6-U1; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:10:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFCA26700; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:10:10 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: The fact that 47 PEOPLE are yelling and sweat is cascading down my SPINAL COLUMN is fairly enjoyable!! In-Reply-To: <85ir1z5ksh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sat\, 12 Jan 2008 12\:46\:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86793 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Andreas Schwab writes: > >> David Kastrup writes: >> >>> Richard Stallman writes: >>> >>>> Please no K&R in new code. =20 >>>> >>>> We have no policy against K&R style. I recently accepted non-K&R >>>> function definitions in Emacs sources, but I still do not particular= ly >>>> like it. K&R style is easier to read anyway. >>> >>> It stops the compiler from doing type checking and type conversions, = for >>> one thing. >> >> Unless you add prototypes. > > In which case you have > a) undefined behavior (the compiler need not check whether the prototyp= e > matches the function declaration). There is nothing undefined in old-style function defintions. > b) not K&R compatible C, so where is the point? The Emacs sources use macros that keep prototypes from being visible from obsolte compilers. What's your point? Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."