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From: jmd@usenet.umr.edu (Jim Dumser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: /sys5.3/bin/cc bug?
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Date: 22 Mar 90 16:52:50 GMT
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In article <179@blender.UUCP> herb@blender.UUCP (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>The sys5.3 compiler reports "Unterminated character string" after 
>the 'r'...  The bsd4.3 compiler doesn't have a problem with it at all... 
>If you use only three (3) apostrophes (') then everything is fine, however
>anymore than three and it seems to blow up...

Yeah, I've found this an other bugs too.  I don't know which version of the
sys5.3 cc I was using; the OS was SR 10.1.  Anyway, "System V" is
unsupported here at UMR, and we don't get too much help with minor things
like bug reports ("yah, that's a bug alright").  My solution:  don't use it!

#! /bin/sh
if [ -n "$CCT" ]; then
  type="-T $CCT"
else
  type=
fi
echo /bsd4.3/bin/cc $type -I$HOME/include -L$HOME/lib $*
/bsd4.3/bin/cc $type -I$HOME/include -L$HOME/lib $*

I just use the bsd version, and tell it specifically to do Sys V compile
(the -T flag).  Define CCT in your environment as either "sys5.3" or
"bsd4.3."  I just checked, and apparently they've replaced -T with -A
{sys,run} (-T still works).  So you might change the type definition to
something like
	type="-A sys,$CCT -A run,$CCT"
(you may only need one, I can't tell from the man page).  

Jim

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