Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C portability from other C compilers
Message-ID: <1989Dec16.043828.19763@druid.uucp>
Date: 16 Dec 89 04:38:28 GMT
References: <1880@atari.UUCP> <32632@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <32632@watmath.waterloo.edu> afscian@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian) writes:
>The mechanism used for returning float, double, and struct/union
>types is not re-entrant and hence violates the pANSI standard.

I don't know about struct/union returns but I thought floats and doubles
were re-entrant.  Can you explain why they aren't. (Not doubting you, just
honestly curious.)

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