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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Query: DeSmet C syntax -- converting to standard C
Message-ID: <1011@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 13:49:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmum.1011
Posted: Thu Jun 11 13:49:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 06:48:04 EDT
References: <7690@brl-adm.ARPA| <814@instable.UUCP| <6540@linus.UUCP| <3362@ecsvax.UUCP| <1174@ihlpm.ATT.COM|
Reply-To: smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 31
Keywords: DeSmet C

In article <1174@ihlpm.ATT.COM| leder@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Leder) writes:
|In article <3362@ecsvax.UUCP|, phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller) writes:
|| In article <6540@linus.UUCP| gwr@linus.UUCP (Gordon W. Ross) writes:
|| |I have a program which was written in DeSmet C but need to compile it
|| |with a standard C compiler.  DeSmet C seems to have a Dollar sign in
|| |place of every left curly bracket, ....
||
|| This article seems very similar to one that appeared a few months ago,
|| when someone was trying to convert a mangled DeSmet C file.
||
|
|I agree with this much except ....
|
|| DeSmet C syntax ** IS ** standard C syntax.

            ^^^^^^

|
|there are some subtle differences in the dialect of DeSmet C and what
|is normally referred to as "standard C".  The specific example that 
|usually plagues me is that the buffered i/o routines, fopen, etc. use
|an integer for FILE instead of a FILE * to designate the file number.
|Actually, you can use FILE * because it is guaranteed to be large enough
|to hold the pointer and is in fact the same size (16 bits) in the original
|version of the compiler.  This is either because Mark DeSmet followed the
|method used by Leor Zolman (author of BDS C) or maybe read the same
|document that Leor says prompted him to use integers instead of pointers
|for buffered file handles.

The above has nothing to do with SYNTAX.  The syntax of DeSmet C is
probably quite standard.