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Re: Kill K&R C support?

To: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Kill K&R C support?
From: Kurt Zeilenga <kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:26:15 -0700
Cc: openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <hbf.20070614q4j@bombur.uio.no>
References: <hbf.20070614q4j@bombur.uio.no>


On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

As far as I can tell, OpenLDAP has been unusable with K&R C since
openldap-2.0:  lber.h in that release had prototypes unprotected
by LDAP_P() in struct sockbuf_io.  They've been there ever since.
So LDAP_P() can go.


I note that the intent was to allow use of -lldap/-llber in K&R C
programs, but to require ISO C to build OpenLDAP Software.

Seems the former is broken (lber.h issues).

Don't know which other not-strict-ISO support is still useful -
I note lber.h has used <string.h> since openldap-2.2.4, for example.
libldap/open.c has used <limits.h> since 2.0.0.


The latter isn't a problem with regard to the above intent.

HEAD wraps that
in HAVE_LIMITS_H, but it does not protect INT_MAX the same way.


Likewise.


--
Regards,
Hallvard

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