Date:	Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:53:44 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
cc:	andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: iostream concern
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Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980202185317.19322A-100000@is>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> > Btw, Robert: does your gcc port includes protoize and unprotoize?
> 
> Currently no. Are these usefull tools? What do they do?

`protoize' takes a K&R-style source which lacks prototypes and
generates a source where all function declarations and definitions
have ANSI prototypes.  It is IMHO invaluable when you have an old
source which you must compile with -Wall to look for possible bugs or
unsafe code.

`unprotoize' does the opposite, which is nowadays not required too
much, since most compilers support ANSI prototypes.

The problem is that they won't work without porting due to the usual
filename-related hassles and binary vs text I/O problems (I once
ported an old version of them).  Yet another item on my todo list,
sigh...

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