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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: compiling PROFF (from comp.binaries.ibm.pc)
Summary: rename PROFF's remove() functions
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Date: 12 Feb 88 20:54:29 GMT
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In article <1353@vu-vlsi.UUCP> 164485913@excalibur.UUCP (Mark Schaffer) writes:
> Has anyone tried compiling the PROFF program (recently posted in Comp.binaries.
> ibm.pc) with Turbo C?  There seems to be a problem with the remove function in
> the lookup.c file (as well as the look.c file).  The following is what TC says
> when compiling lookup.c.
> 
>      Wrong number of arguments in call of 'remove'
> 
> Is this happening with people with other compilers, or is this some stupid
> quirk with TC?

Both look.c and lookup.c contain functions called remove().  Unfortunately,
remove() is a common function that is contained in the TC libraries and is
defined in their stdio.h and io.h include files.  So TC thinks you are
implementing _its_ remove() function and complains when it doesn't see the
argument format _its_ remove() should have.

The easiest thing to do is rename the proff remove() functions (and their
one reference in pxxparse.c) to something else.  I did this and it all 
compiled and linked just fine under MS C 4.0.  (For an ostensibly portable
product, it generated far more warnings than it should have, but, none the
less, worked fine on my system.)

Dick

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