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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: enum handling by cc under ultrix V2 wrong?
Message-ID: <1990Jul1.003253.5002@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jun29.175209.16251@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 90 00:32:53 GMT

In article <1990Jun29.175209.16251@watdragon.waterloo.edu> tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
>Am porting a big application to a decsystem 3100 running ultrix V2.something;
>the cc compiler complains about the following things...
>These all seem like gross violations of both common sense and of the ANSI
>C standard as I read it in K&R V2...

In general, it is unwise to assume that existing compilers conform to
ANSI C.  Many of them don't try, and some that try don't succeed.
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"Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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