FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Castellano, Nicholas wrote:

> You can't be quite that direct, since you want to be sure you don't change
> real extern variable declarations or 'extern "C" {' blocks.  But in general,
> yes, I'd like to see all of our extern function declarations changed to
> prototypes.  (We may want to be more careful with the "public" header files,
> if we care about supporting old non-ANSI C compilers.  Does anyone care?)

I think we have to draw the line somewhere.  If they got freetds compiled, 
obviously they have an ansi compiler.  If not they can run ansi2knr, i 
don't think that's too much to ask.
 
> I figured I'd start with one header and see if that met with approval before
> submitting patches for the others.  Let me know if I should continue or if
> you want to do it yourself.
> 
> --nick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:17 PM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] RE: [ freetds-Patches-600965 ] Real prototypes in tds.h
> 
> 
> > From: noreply AT sourceforge.net [mailto:noreply AT sourceforge.net]
> > Sent: August 27, 2002 4:09 PM
> > 
> > intead of the strange mixture of prototypes and extern
> > 
> > declarations currently in place.
> 
> Should we just 
> 
>       s/^extern //
> 
> thoughout?  I found similar in sybdb.h.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
>