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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: default initialization of static and extern
Message-ID: <6917@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 17:39:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 17:39:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 02:04:19 EDT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: C, NULL, portability

>>Are there really compilers which violate this specification?

In article <675@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU> mason@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU
(Tony Mason) writes:
>... The Whitesmith's Compiler used to do this (it was Version 6 based
>and explicitly stated that it deviated from K&R in this respect.)

It used to do a lot of dumb things.  I hope they have improved it
since I had to use it for a Z80-based project.  (In fairness, I
should mention that most of the problems we discovered were described
in the manual.  Unfortunately, we had lost the manual, and found
it only after we had figured out both the problems and the
work-arounds.)
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