Re: A source file de-tabifier for you

From: Leor Zolman (leor_at_bdsoft.com)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 11:37:10 -0400

On Sun, 16 May 2004 11:16:52 -0400, Leor Zolman <leor@bdsoft.com> wrote:

>Following is plist.c, a program I originally wrote to help me format source
>listings for publication in CUJ articles

Heh, I just noticed this still uses old-style K&R function headers, e.g.,

int foo(a,b)
int a, int b
{
        ...
}

Think of it as nostalgic ;-) Believe it or not, the C compiler I was using
the most at the time, under SCO Xenix, only supported C prototypes when you
did /not/ include the identifier names for parameters; that is, for the
program above, the prototype:
        int foo(int, int);
would have been okay, but if I'd written:
        int foo(int a, int b);
the compiler would have choked. Thus I stuck with old-style function
headers somewhat longer into the post-C89 era than I would have if I
weren't porting code back and forth between DOS and Xenix at the time...
        -leor 

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