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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: SCOTT LURNDAL
date: 2021-01-06 15:15:00
subject: Re: AI and decompilation?

Martin Gregorie  writes:
>On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:06:57 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>
>> You shouldn’t need declarations in C unless you’re using one of those
>> new-fangled compilers that requires them. Old code should still be
>> supported, though.
>>
>Last time I tried it, (about 2 months ago), the current GNU C compiler
>accepts the old K&R C first edition procedure declaration syntax. I wish
>more compilers worked this way.

It will not, however, accept the original V6 C "a =+ b" ambiguous syntax,
so older code may still need to be edited before compilation with a modern
compiler.

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