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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: VAX signal() prototype (Re: 0 and pointers.( Re: Abandon NULL for (0)))
Message-ID: <6579@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 18 Oct 89 16:07:45 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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I can't believe that you guys are still flaming about the varargs nature
of the VAX/VMS prototype for signal(). That's not the weird part if you've
ever used VMS C (try ``open(name, mode, "tag=value", "tag=value")''). The
weird part is that it takes an (int *)() and returns a (void *)() (or the
other way around). What, you need to cast the return value of signal()
before you can pass it back to itself?
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
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