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From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: info for the masses
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.233114.17861@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 25 Jan 91 23:31:14 GMT
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In article <14979@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <7175@crash.cts.com> dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com (Daniel Zimmerman) writes:
>>... ORCA/C ... it's completely ANSI C compatible ...
>
>No, that's a common misconception.  Certainly ORCA/C tries to be a conforming
>implementation, but it falls short on a number of counts, most notably in
>preprocessing, type qualifiers, and the library.  I assume these will be
>addressed for future releases.

Well, can someone who knows all the libraries Orca/C should support
please inform the rest of us.  I haven't tried to port a lot of stuff
to orca from unix because I haven't had hardly anytime since November 
when I got it.  But I'd like to know about these libraries because maybe
I could write some of them and we'd all be the better for it.

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    Jerry Penner	alberta!bode!jpenne	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada