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From: g-tookey@rocky.cs.wisc.edu. (Richard Schaut)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: ANSI vs K&R C (Re: Re^2: Trouble compiling flip with TurboC 1.5)
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Date: 28 Jul 89 02:02:39 GMT
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In article <1583@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>BTW, I'm not a much of a C programmer, so I'm curious, how well does
>ANSI C conform to these "norms"?

ANSI C is an extension of K&R.  An ANSI compiler will compile a program
that conforms to K&R, but not vice-versa.


Rick
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