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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: include files
Message-ID: <26@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 20:27:15 GMT
References: <23565@hi.unm.edu> <6009@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <6009@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>The Manx functions.h is wrong.  ConsoleDevice is not a function, it
>is a library base pointer for the console.device.

It is simply ludicrous that after two and half years, we STILL have
confusion about what constitutes an "official" set of include files,
what their contents should be, and what the return type and argument
types are for the standard library functions.  It is too bad that 
someone with lots of experience in a full C development environment
and use of lint, was not available to sort out all the inconsistencies
and ambiguities early in the development cycle.  When I first got a
copy of Amiga Lint in early 1986, I tried to come up with a "definitive
lint library" for the Amiga, based on three different sets of include
files (C-A Developer set, Manx set, Lattice set), from the C-A documentation,
and from various third party manuals.  I finally gave it up as hopeless.
Given the enormous volume of C source now available for the Amiga,
it is probably impractical now anyway, as any reasonable sized program
would likely give hundreds or thousands of type violations even if
we could agree on the specification of each library function.

Sigh.

-Fred  ><>
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