Suggestions

[Tony van der Hoff]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, at 11:55:32, David Bryan
<D.J.Bryan at cranfield.ac.uk> wrote on the subject "Suggestions":

>In message <WnH8hEAWFVC5Ew8q at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
>          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way of detecting CFront
>> specifically to allow an exception to be made.
>
>Which is one reason I suggested making it a user contolled switch
>only.
>
I agree with Jonathan's sentiments here; why make life difficult for
existing users. I can't really see what your proposal gains. However, a
user-controlled switch *as well* seems to me a good compromise.

>> How do we recognise C99? Does the standard define a compile-time flag?
>> Or will <stdbool.h> define a macro? 
>> 
Oh, yes! |__bool_true_false_are_defined| <g>

Let no-one take the piss out of OSLibInclude$Path again ;-)

>> Has anyone got a URL for the standard, please?
>
>http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2620/
>
Thanks for that, David.
"Working draft, 1997-11-21"; is that what was ratified as C-99?

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