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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems compiling Gnuplot w/ TC 2.0
Keywords: linking, error, Gnuplot, TC 2.0
Message-ID: <26299@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 89 23:28:14 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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excerpted from me:
->What's happening is that TC2.0 (unlike previous versions) no longer
->accepts lines that are delimited by ^J only --- it demands ^M^J.  By
	[...]
->TC2.0 also made one executable grow by 25% over TC1.5.  I think Borland
->has convinced me not to "upgrade" to inferior successor packages.

excerpted from baumann@muon.UUCP (Michael Baumann) <497@proton.UUCP> :
-1) How TC2.0 handles  ^J or ^J^M verses TC1.5 should be a moot point.
-   No where in the definition of the C language are new-lines (however
-   you want to make 'em) defined as required for ANY statement. They are
-   WHITE SPACE. To be consumed by the Lexical Analyzer. They should 
-   Never be seen by the parser.
-
-2) When you made your comparison of TC2.0 vs TC1.5 were ALL options
-   the same? Including supression of debugger support?


Since you asked, instead of assuming...  yes, I turned everything off to
get things as small as possible.  Still the executable grows.  Also, as
others have pointed out, it is actually the preprocessor that wants the
carriage returns.

Someone else tells me that Borland are addressing the issue, in response
to numerous complaints from people trying to port code from one system
to another.  I don't keep 2 operating systems on my 8088 box, I just
split my activity between home and a VAX at school.  My fingers are crossed.

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Computer Science Dept, Lindley Hall 101	|  reality's on the blink again."
Indiana University			|   -- Marvin
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