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From: hoyt@laura.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Does PMAX Ultrix 4.0 cc *fully* support void pointers?
Keywords: brain damage
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.150046.12957@decatl.dec.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 15:00:46 GMT
References: <263@talarian.UUCP>
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Reply-To: hoyt@laura.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <263@talarian.UUCP>, scott@talarian.UUCP (Scott Weitzenkamp) writes:

>   We have a DECstation 3100 with Ultrix 3.0.  One of the bugs in cc is
> that it does not have complete support for void pointers.  For
> example, the following code will *not* compile:
> 
> int foo(void *ptr)
> {
>   printf("%d\n", ptr);
> }
> 
>   Is this bug fixed in cc on Ultrix 4.0?

Yes.

>   While I'm complaining, does the Ultrix 4.0 cc support the ANSI C
> "const" keyword?

Not yet:

% cc -c foo.c
ccom: Warning: foo.c, line 3: "const" is reserved for future use
	const char *fred = "fred";
      -------------^

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