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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
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Subject: Re: Cnews vs. ANSI C (was Re: Cnews and gcc 1.36 on UNIXPC)
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Date: 4 Dec 89 17:01:58 GMT
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In article <1989Dec2.235748.7304@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

| The main problem is areas like function prototyping.  Personally, I think
| Geoff exaggerates the non-ANSIness of the code, but there are problems
| here and there with making things acceptable to *both* current compilers
| and ANSI compilers, and these have generally been resolved in favor of
| current compilers.

  I don't know if the problems are exagerated or not, but I gave up
trying to get it to compile under the latest, most ANSIfied, C compiler
for Xenix. The problems were in the procedure types among other things.
If I had a good reason to change I would, but I spent about four hours
hacking at the sources, and finally got it to compile only to find that
I had broken something.

  I suspect that it would compile fine with pcc or even the old xenix
compiler, but that's the price you pay for having the latest version.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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