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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Turbo C portability from other C compilers
Message-ID: <1880@atari.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 23:58:46 GMT
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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I don't normally read this group, so please respond by mail, not
by posting.

I am wondering if Turbo C is a "friendly," "traditional" C compiler.
What I mean is, can you take programs written in other environments and
compile them under Turbo C?  UN*X is one environment which comes to
mind, but there are lots of others.  When you start with a program
written somewhere else, do you find you have to hack and tune to get
the thing to compile and run under Turbo C?  Do you find that to have
been because of Turbo C's idiosyncrasies, rather than those of the
other environment?

I'm asking because I have used the Turbo C compiler which is available
in Germany for the Atari ST, and I have found it to be idiosyncratic. I
know that it doesn't share its lineage with the PC version, but I do
wonder if the PC version is like that.

Secondly, is the PC's Turbo C an ANSI C compiler?

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