Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:46:58 -0400
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> That's exactly the point I want to prove. Making that kind of code
> 'just work' does not minimize FAQs, it just replaces one FAQs with
> others.

History has shown that there are more clueless users than pedants.

> > gratuitously break existing code if we don't have to.
> 
> And what would mean that 'we have to'?

If you can demonstrate a standards-conforming program that the average
user would be expected to produce that doesn't work with djgpp's
headers, we'll fix it.  I know we can come up with hand-crafted
programs that demonstrate non-conformity.  I'm not interested in
those, because common sense should prevail in the rare esoteric cases.