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Subject: orca/c bug followup
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Date: 29 Jan 91 03:52:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.233114.17861@ee.ualberta.ca> jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner) writes:
>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.
>
>    Jerry Penner	alberta!bode!jpenne	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
>
if you don't have the ANSI draft, go to the bookstore and checkout k&r II and
look in the back at the functions it lists. the only two i've briefly found
that are not in orca's libraries are vprintf() (which everyone knows about)
and strtime() (or something like that in <time.h>).

also, the libraries are somewhat buggy and slow. memxxx() is one instance of
a buggy library routine (with data > 64K).   

also, i've you're not new to C you will find out that what Doug said above
is very true, regarding preprocessing and type qualifiers.

i and many others have found many bugs in orca/c. right now, i could mail
mike a bug a week for the next several months if i wanted. some of them are
very major and other minor inconveniences. however, if you have bugs send them
to him now so he will be inundated with them and will have no other choice
to get to it soon (although he says he will be getting to orca/c soon)

albert