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From: sah@gumby (Steve Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: prototypes in the C compiler
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Date: 8 Nov 90 21:41:39 GMT
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In-reply-to: tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein)

In article <7031@hub.ucsb.edu>, tom@bears (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?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>--
>He is Bob...eager for fun.         | Tom Weinstein  tom@bears.ucsb.edu
>He wears a smile... Everybody run! |                tweinst@polyslo.calpoly.edu



There has been 23 bugs(including bugs rejected, cosmetic or not enough
info supplied) reported against prototypes since July '86. Of the 23
bugs reported 3 remain open. The implementation was based on 
the May '86 draft standard and was therefore incomplete in
terms of prototype checking and conversion semantics. In 
addition, register storage class was omitted from the 
implementation as far as prototypes were concerned. Over the
years as the standard evolved the implementation has been
updated.

The next release of the compiler, 2.20, will have a complete
implementation of prototypes.
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