Full_Name: Hallvard B Furuseth Version: 2.0.0 and later OS: URL: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200706/msg00009.html Submission from: (NULL) (129.240.6.233) Submitted by: hallvard
openldap-devel thread "Kill K&R C support?" from jun 2007, edited into a single quote/response stream:
Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
As far as I can tell, OpenLDAP has been unusable with K&R C since openldap-2.0: lber.h in that release had prototypes unprotected by LDAP_P() in struct sockbuf_io. They've been there ever since. So LDAP_P() can [edit: probably] go.
I note that the intent was to allow use of -lldap/-llber in K&R C programs, but to require ISO C to build OpenLDAP Software.
Which I think made sense. But now, apparently nobody has complained about the problem for 7 years. Time to quit worrying about K&R?
Seems the former is broken (lber.h issues).
Still broken today (jun 2009).
Don't know which other not-strict-ISO support is still useful - I note lber.h has used <string.h> since openldap-2.2.4, for example. libldap/open.c has used <limits.h> since 2.0.0.
The latter isn't a problem with regard to the above intent.
HEAD wraps that in HAVE_LIMITS_H, but it does not protect INT_MAX the same way.
Likewise.