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




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.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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