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From: andreas@nixhhs.UUCP (Andreas Wettengel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: No comments on C68 V.II?
Message-ID: <1318@nixhhs.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 90 05:59:55 GMT
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In article <25598@nigel.udel.EDU> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
>Well, I shipped out version II of c68 more than a week ago and I
>received nearly no comment on it, though I do not assume it is perfect
>at the moment.
Well, there is a problem with c68lib and the calls the compiler
generates for it. The names are now all in "user name space". If you
have a function called "ldiv", your division of long integers will
fail. It would certainly be better to use implementation reserved names
beginning _[A-Z_]. Btw, the same is true for call* and len in
other/call.c...

The old c68 used different names, so if you compiled your libc.a using
c68, you have to recompile the following files:

lib/ansi:
	ctime.c strtol.c strtoul.c rand.c scanf.c
lib/other:
	doprintf.c lrand.c printk.c curses.c

(Those are the ones that I found.)

>I hope that c68 reliablity is so good that you can use it as your
>every-day compiler (I do so since long ago).
I do so also; now that it has nice error messages, it is even better.

Andreas

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