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From: eric@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Eric Gullerud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MSC vs TurboC vs ???
Message-ID: <1180006@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 88 18:38:21 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I have recently joined the PC world, coming over from the UN*X camp.
I have MicroSoft C and have been favorably impressed with the degree
of compatability between the UN*X and MSC libraries (although I have
yet to do the kind of programming that would really test the compatabilty).

I am also aware that there are other C compiliers out there, most notably
the Turbo C compiler(s).  My question is this:  Has anyone come up with a
list of guidelines/restrictions/recommendations for writing C programs that
are portable between different C compilers and libraries?  What functions
or constructs should I avoid using that might work with MSC but not other
C compilers?  Has anyone (or magazine) published such a comparison recently?

				Eric Gullerud
				Hewlett Packard
				...!hplabs!hp-pcd!eric

P.S. (I expect some remark from Russ Nelson, you former HP employee you...)