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Subject: Re: ANSI prototypes, the right choice...
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Date: 21 Feb 91 21:19:16 GMT
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>In article <1991Feb11.030811.25074@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>You have it backwards. Lattice accepts mixtures. No other Ansi-compatible
>>compiler I've used does...
> 
>How curious; an ANSI-conforming compiler has to accept mixtures.  Given
>some attention to parameter types, a program which prototypes a function and
>then gives an old-style definition of it is completely, 100% ANSI-conforming,
>and any compiler which refuses to accept it is not.

Not so.  Most C compilers for mainframes I have seen allow both 100% ANSI
compliant mode and a "not so compliant" ;-) mode.  The VAX C compiler is an
example.

>-- 
>"Read the OSI protocol specifications?  | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>I can't even *lift* them!"              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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