Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!seanf From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: problem with cc compiler Message-ID: <3100@scolex.sco.COM> Date: 26 Jul 89 23:47:20 GMT References: <712@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> <10589@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1185@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Reply-To: seanf@scolex.UUCP (Sean Fagan) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 14 In article <10589@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >Standard-conforming C implementations are quite constrained in this >regard, and would not have invoked your read() function by mistake. The only current standard for C makes no mention of that. That standard, of course, is K&R. The dpANS requires that users be able to do that; however, it is not yet a standard! -- Sean Eric Fagan | "Uhm, excuse me..." seanf@sco.UUCP | -- James T. Kirk (William Shatner), ST V: TFF (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.