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Re: Patches to move cgen files to C90 with prototypes
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:47:43PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> > Given that such mechanical conversions end up being done en-masse for
> > all the functions in a given file, anyone wanting to know those things
> > could find the single line
> > * file.c: c90-ized.
> > and understand.
>
> Yes that would be fair.
>
> Let me put it this way. I am not going to reject reformatting patches
> just because the ChangeLog entry does not mention every function by
> name. If the submitter has gone to the trouble of naming the
> functions then that is great, but I am not going to insist on it.
Oh good. I was going to mention the other downside to insisting on
per-function ChangeLog entries for C90 conversions is that patches might
not be submitted..
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Alan Modra
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