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+Notes to hackers.
+
+---
+
+Dave likes this code indented formatted in a consistent way.
+The file "dot.emacs" has the emacs C-mode indentation style that Dave likes.
+
+---
+
+NTP4 uses ANSI C.  Some folks are blessed with a pre-ansi C compiler.  We
+support them by using "ansi2knr" in the Makefiles, which is automatically
+detected and selected by the configure process.
+
+For ansi2knr to work, we MUST define functions as follows:
+
+type stuff
+function_name ( actual parameters )
+
+While the whitespace is optional, the function name MUST start at column 0.
+
+---
+
+We'd like to see *all* system function declarations live in include/l_stdlib.h
+and NEVER appear in the .c files.
+