Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: AT&T C compilers
Message-ID: <1989Mar2.173404.454@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <569@marob.MASA.COM> <1071@auspex.UUCP> <1109@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 17:34:04 GMT

In article <1109@wpi.wpi.edu> lfoard@wpi.wpi.edu (Lawrence C Foard) writes:
>... Standard UNIX C still barfs on things like p=-1 .

To the extent that this is true -- there is no such thing as a "standard
UNIX C" with consistent behavior across Unixes -- it barfs because it
*should*:  there is still reason to worry about old code that uses the
old, no-longer-supported assignment operators like =- .  Compilers in
new environments, like Turbo C, don't have to worry about this, but
compilers for environments that have 15 or 20 years of C history behind
them can't always ignore such issues.
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