[gnu.gcc] protoize 1.00 users - note

rfg@MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette) (06/21/89)

Dear Friends,

Can you believe it?  Somebody has actually questioned the usefulness of
some of *my* code!  I am floored! :-)

Anyway, all seriousness aside, if any of you folks out there decide to
use my PROTOIZE program, and if you find it useful, and if you think that
FSF should distribute it with future versions of GCC, please send a message
to that effect to:

	rms@wheaties.ai.mit.edu

If enough people *do* find this tool useful enough to send in messages,
then it *may* be distributed with GCC at some point in the future.
This will make it slightly simpler to install.  Also, if FSF doesn't
decide to distribute it (due to lack of interest) I will see it as
pointless to spend any of my time on maintaining it.

The forgoing was a Free (semi-)political announcement.

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jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (06/21/89)

/ gnu.gcc / rfg@MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette) / Jun 20, 1989 /
... if any of you folks out there decide to
use my PROTOIZE program, and if you find it useful, ...
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(I haven't tried it yet.)  Does proroize leave the old function
declarations in the source, say, under "#ifndef __STDC__"?  I have made
several nontrivial systems ANSI-compiler-digestable just over this past
month, but none of them were programs that I would want to break under
pre-ANSI compilers.

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