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From: wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Compiler put on server
Summary: Nonportable sprintf() in compiler source
Message-ID: <765@ubbpc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 15:45:59 GMT
References: <9012031519.AA11198@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Organization: Unisys UNIX Portation Center, Blue Bell, PA
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In article <9012031519.AA11198@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, K312240@AEARN.BITNET (Klaus Kusche) writes:
> 
> Dear Transputer Mailing List:
> 
> For those of you who can't FTP and didn't receive the compiler when it
> was mailed on the list, I've put it onto a file server. [ ...
>	... see earlier post for details (WGH) ]
> 
> Unfortunately, this is the version where all | (vertical bar)
> mutated into : (colon). 
> 
> Enjoy!
> 


 Sorry, but I am still not enjoying this.  I have fixed all the ':' 
problems that my K&R C compiler can find, but the source code is still wrong.

 For example, decl.c has declarations and usage of sprintf that require it
to return char * (as if it returned the result string passed in as its first
argument).  But this appears to be wrong: my 'man' pages and my ANSI C guide
both say that sprintf returns an int.

 Was this compiler written for UNIX?  I am not convinced that anybody has
ever compiled or run it on UNIX or any other conventional implementation of C.

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