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From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI C ANSI-complient or not???
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.073714.29972@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Date: 15 Mar 91 07:37:14 GMT
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davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson) writes:

>In article <29042.27dd4bf4@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> brownrigg@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>I keep seeing posts of people suggesting that the SGI c compiler is
>>ANSI complient.  I must be missing something here, because the version
>>we have on our new 4D/25 (and any other version for that matter) is so
>>[<censored :-)>] K&R that it doesn't understand "void *" as a data type.

>Best guess: you are still running release 3.2.

>Release 3.3 cc understands void, void *.   ANSI C was first released
>this year (for use with release 3.3).

Yes 3.3 has void and can handle prototypes but is still not a full ANSI C
compiler. If I remember correctly the man pages explcitly say it isn't.

>Regards,
>[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea@sgi.com ]
>[``What can go wrong?''                           --Calvin to Hobbes]

Cheers,

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>