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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: atof() in SCO UNIX DEV
Message-ID: <8372@scolex.sco.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 90 06:44:02 GMT
References: <1990Oct09.133730.478@pemstgt.gtc.de> <7944@star.cs.vu.nl> <orthodontist@dce.ie>
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In article <orthodontist@dce.ie> em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) writes:
>SCO Unix has a compiler that makes a feeble pretense at being ANSI.  It's
>ridiculously inept in some areas.  Look at the definition of offsetof() in
><stddef.h> for example: it evaluates to a (char *) instead of an integer.

Actually, it evaluates to a void*, not a char*.  (We forgot to put in the
cast, it looks like; a simple enough fix if you run into problems with it,
in this respect.)  If you want to be more precice, it evaluates to a
<type-of-member>*.

>I would advise anyone writing C programs on this system to get the GNU
>C compiler.

Provided, of course, they don't want to be compatable with the system,
that's a pretty decent suggestion.  And, of course, they cannot develop DOS,
'286, or OMF products using gcc.

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