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From: tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC 2,2 and LPI C problem.
Summary: Read the release notes
Message-ID: <75@maxx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 90 03:16:33 GMT
References: <773@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM>
Organization: MAXX: Tom Yager's UNIX lab, Amherst, NH.
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In article <773@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM>, smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM (Hibbard T. Smith JR) writes:
> ...the "ansi" c compiler from LPI. ...it couldn't produce working code 
> from the distributed samples. This code always prints 0 for argc, and trash 
> for argv's

It's in the release notes, but not easy to spot.

To get it to compile properly under ISC, you need to specify the "-sys" and
"-xid" compiler options. I've been porting ANSI C apps from DOS with these
flags set, and haven't encountered any problems.

(ty)
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