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From: Kevin_P_McCarty@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: AT&T C compilers
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Date: 7 Mar 89 02:10:13 GMT
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In article <774@masscomp.UUCP> ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods) writes:

>In article <1109@wpi.wpi.edu> lfoard@wpi.wpi.edu (Lawrence C Foard) writes:
>>Turbo C and probably other PC C compilers have supported ANSI prototypes for
>>several years.
>Have they now?  Tell me again how many years Turbo C has been around.  Tell
>me again how how many years the dpANS and pANS have been available for
>compiler vendors.  What's your definition of "several years?"

I have a copy of the August 1985 draft, and it includes function prototypes,
so X3J11 has been talking about them for at least 3 1/2 years.
Does that count as several years?

Kevin McCarty