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List:       ntp-hackers
Subject:    Re: [ntp:hackers] c language stuff
From:       David Malone <dwmalone () maths ! tcd ! ie>
Date:       2009-10-03 23:03:07
Message-ID: 20091003230307.GA13064 () walton ! maths ! tcd ! ie
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On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:21:18AM +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> NTP has traditionally run on Ancient hardware, in part (I think) because
> hardware used to be expensive.  Now that there are so many "less
> ancient" pieces of hardware out there and free OSes and decent compilers
> are so easily available, I'm not sure there is still much of a reason to
> support even C89.

I did try compiling ntp-dev on FreeBSD 4.11 about 6 months ago, and
ran into lots of problems. There are quite a few uses of C99
constructs that got in the way. There were also some other problems,
to do with it assuming the existance of certain types (maybe
socklen_t?  I forget the exact details) that eventually put me off.

It's not really a big deal, because any modern hardware will run
more recent versions of FreeBSD. OTOH, in the unlikely event that
you wanted to run FreeBSD on a real 386 (rather than a 486, pentium
or something from this decade), FreeBSD 4.11 might be your best
choice.

	David.
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