[OpenAFS-devel] which OS's can't handle prototypes in kernel code?

Marcus Watts mdw@umich.edu
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:13:17 -0400


"Neulinger, Nathan" writes:
>   do we
>   have any definite information as to what systems cannot handle prototypes in
>   the kernel code? 

Solaris 1 aka SunOS 4.1 doesn't do prototypes.  Does OpenAFS still
support that?

Most modern machines will have ANSI compliant compilers.  Nearly all of
the opensource derived systems, and some of the commercial ones as
well, use GCC, which is ANSI.  What's left is going to be a hodge-podge
of elderly commercial Unix systems.  Does Compaq (or anyone else?)
still make MIPS machines?  What about HP-UX?  Etc.  Transarc seems
to have done some code cleanup & gotten rid of some older machines,
such as the IBM RT, etc. -- so there may not be anything left
in openafs that does not do ANSI.

				-Marcus