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Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)



On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:17:44PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:16:03PM +0000, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:50:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

>>>   I fully support Guillem changes. C99 is almost 10 years old, we're
>>> coding dpkg for Debian, in a sane C99/POSIX/X-OPEN/whatever
>>> environment.

>> Hmm... Not really. GCC's default mode is still C89+GNU extensions. It
>> is true that the GNU extensions overlap C99 somewhat. But this does
>> not destroy the validity of your claim (that dpkg is coded for a
>> relatively decently modern compiler).

>   dpkg is built using gcc --std=gnu99.

Ah, then, yes.

-- 
Lionel


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