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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: cc -traditional problem
Keywords: nawk, stdio.h, lint
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.115059.12153@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 31 Jan 91 11:50:59 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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I was moving over some scripts from the old system and in testing
discovered NeXT's awk is oawk, so I decided to port nawk.  It wouldn't
compile so I went to the manual and discovered this might be because
externs were mentioned inside functions and I probably needed the
-traditional flag.  When I tried that, the compiler croaked on problems
with stdio.h.  It didn't like the concept of const whatever.  Now that
seems pretty dumb.  Why provide a flag that is needed but can't be used?
This suggests I am missing something, but I don't know what.  Do you?

BTW, why is there no lint?  Are the compiler messages considered to be
just as good?

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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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