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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Function Prototypes and SCO Xenix-386 C
Keywords: C, ANSI
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Date: 28 Jul 89 19:49:22 GMT
References: <1989Jul27.171720.1948@holos0.uucp>
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In article <1989Jul27.171720.1948@holos0.uucp> lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed) writes:

| The Xenix-386 cc command will not support function prototypes if I
| use -M3 (generate 80386 code).  This certainly means that cc is forking
| a different compiler, and an older one, for -M2 than for -M3.  The -M3
| version generates lots of syntax error messages for a line like:
|    void my_function ( char *, int **, struct foo *, int);

  You must have an *OLD* version. Both the current version I have at
work and the previous version I have home (got it about March89) work
just fine in that regard.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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