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From: DRIEHUIS%HLERUL5.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU
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Subject: Re: portability and standards
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Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 12:49:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 12:49:09 1987
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> Since VMS does not, as far as I know, have lint, there doesn't seem to
> be a good test.
No, it doesn't have lint, and I dread that ! Lint is much nicer than the
'portability' option of VMS C (ever heard of a compiler complaining
about its own include files ? VMS C does !).
> Under Primos there is another wrinkle to take into account.  The Primos
> C compiler insists that every file have an actual entry point.  (I.e.,
> you can't have a file only consisting of definitions.)
VMS C has exactly the same bug. It took me quite some time to find this
out, because for some reason the compiler nor the linker complained
about what must have been an unresolved external in some source file.
                                        - Bert
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Bert Driehuis, LICOR Leiden, <DRIEHUIS@HLERUL5>,
                and VNG The Hague <no-name@no-net>
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