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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Turbo C vs. Library function names
Message-ID: <9130@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 14:48:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.9130
Posted: Fri Sep 25 14:48:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 01:26:50 EDT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: How do you pre-empt them?

I'm trying out Turbo C on a lot of C code that was written for (and
successfully compiled by) Microsoft C v4.0.  The results so far are very
good: I've only had to add an explicit "fflush()" here and there that MSC
didn't really need, but probably should have had in there anyway.

The only real problem I've encountered is when I have named a function
of mine with the same name Turbo uses as a library function ... e.g. peek().
In MSC, library functions are selectively ignored if you have already defined
a function using the same name in your code, but Turbo gets all upset about 
it, and refuses to acknowledge my inalienable right to pick overlapping names 
for my functions.  That's a simple way to replace a library funtion you
don't like.

I assume this is a known bug that will be fixed someday, but does anyone
have a workaround? 

 ...Or am I just being dumb (again)?

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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