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From: decot@hpisod2.cup.hp.com (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: cc under HP-UX 7.0 (probably 8.0 too)
Message-ID: <16710083@hpisod2.cup.hp.com>
Date: 13 Apr 91 04:53:03 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.153905.29554@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> In a recent posting in response to a rather long series of questions
> regarding the pros and cons of HP snakes v.  Sun Sparc 2s, an ambiguity
> was left unresolved concerning whether the C compiler under HP-UX 8.0 is
> ANSI compliant.  We haven't gotten our snakes yet, alas, but we are
> running HP-UX 7.0 on several machines.  When invoked with the
> appropriate flag ( -a, I think) cc will indeed deal with ANSI C.  I
> presume that HP will not take a step backward when moving to 8.0.

Your presumption is warranted and not only that, it is correct.  :-)

(Although the ANSI mode flag was, and is, -Aa).

Dave Decot