Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!ked
From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling flip with TurboC 1.5
Message-ID: <26514@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 89 05:47:19 GMT
References: <14517@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 52

In article <14517@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> pete@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Schmitt) writes:
>
>I am having trouble compiling the recent posting of flip on
>my pc with TC 1.5.  Here is a script of the session. Maybe
>someone can point me in the right direction.

>Undefined symbol '_signal' in module flip.c

I went from TC 1.0 to TC 2.0 without spending any time on the cross with
TC 1.5.   As I remember, for some totally (pardon the technical jargon)
TOTALLY HALF-ASSED REASON, signal was actually csignal or something.

This was one of a number of TOTALLY HALF-ASSED, deviations from **IX
(with NO GOOD OR BAD REASON) "features" of TC 1.0 and 1.5 which, in
testimony to their original brilliance and utility, were ELIMINATED with
TC 2.0.

While I'm on the soapbox, let me note that before I bought TC, I bought
a number of magazines and read a number of reviews of it.  NOT ONE REVIEW
noted any of the BRAIN-DEAD FEATURES of TC 1.0/1.5 (I can say they were
brain-dead with certainity because they were eliminated in TC 2.0), most
of which were stupid, arbitrary deviations from **IX norms.

All the reviews I read focused on compile/execution speed.  As it turned
out I wasted more time tracking down BRAIN-DEAD differences between **IX
and MSDOS conventions (changed to **IX forms in TC 2.0) than I saved by
the faster compile times of TC 1.0.  From this, I concluded that magazine
reviews are only useful eliminating in TOTAL DUDS.  If the program trashes
the reviewer's hard disk AND causes a fire on the mother board AND if the
product comes from a company that does not advertise too heavily in the
magazine in question, it ~might~ get an unfavorable review.

The original TC 1.0 had more bugs than raw meat in a third world bazaar,
but NOT one review I read discovered that, for example, TC 1.0 floating
point was more flakey than old paint on a brick wall.

TO MAKE A DIATRIBE SHORT.  Look at <signal.h>.  You'll probably not find
a definition for signal().  It'll be called something else.  That's most
of your problem;  the rest is in the parameters.  Beg, borrow, or steal
TC 2.0.  It's (almost) good!

Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
916-752-1636 (voice, fax [2300-0800 PDT])
916-752-0776 secretary

(bitnet) ehkinmonth@ucdavis.edu
(uucp) ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdked!cck
(telnet or 916-752-7920) cc-dnet.ucdavis.edu [128.120.2.251]
	request ucdked, login as guest,
	no password