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From: paul@u02.svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller)
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Subject: Re: prototypes in the C compiler
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Date: 8 Nov 90 18:13:51 GMT
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tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein) writes:

>I'm going to be writing some code that has to be fairly portable to a
>Mips box.  The problem I have is that the person who has the Mips seems
>to think that their C compiler doesn't support ANSI prototypes.  This
>seems a little strange to me.  So, is he wrong?  Does he just have an
>old OS version?  Are there some compiler flags that have to be set?

The MIPS C compiler does support ANSI prototypes although it is not yet an ANSI
C compiler. Previous to version 2.10 of the C compiler, the prototypes were
allowed but there was not much checking going on. With 2.10 and later compilers,the prototypes are being checked. There is a compiler flag (-std) but it does
not appear to have anything to do with prototypes.
Paul Kohlmiller

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