Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!g-rh
From: g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: static functions broken in non-Unix compilers?
Message-ID: <28437@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 21 May 88 08:42:10 GMT
References: <120@pigs.UUCP> <126@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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In article <126@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>In article <120@pigs.UUCP>, I write:
>] I have been informed that there is some trouble declaring functions to
>] be static in most of the non-Unix compilers.  I haven't seen this but
>] my informant swears the 9370 VM and VAX/VMS and MS-DOS C compilers all
>] gag on static func().
>] 
>] Comments?  Send mail, if I get enough replies I'll summarize to the net.

Mail didn't get through.  Earlier versions of Primos C did not accept static
functions (Primos C is a little eccentric anyway.)  I don't know about current
version because we stripped out all static functions (portable is what actually
works, not what the standards, if any, say should work.)  No problem that I
know of in earlier VMS-VAX C.



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