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- From: clyde@hitech.com.au (Clyde Smith-Stubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Free Pacific C problem
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 12:00:43 GMT
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- On 15 Jan 1996 11:57:40 -0600, milam@fohnix.metronet.com (Stan Milam)
- wrote:
-
-
- >I agree with you. Once you figure it out and learn where the holes are it
- >is a nice compiler. It also produces really tight, fast code, and the
- >executables are *very* small. It would go a long way to:
- >
- >1. Get all of the ANSI manifest constants defined in the header files.
- >2. Implement all of the ANSI required functions in the library (strtol(),
- > memmove(), etc.).
-
- I'm happy to fix any that are pointed out - I don't have the time at
- present to go through the standard page by page (a lot of the library
- was done back in the late '80s when the standard was in its late
- drafts - the final standard added a few extra functions and macros -
- this is the main reason they're not there).
-
- >3. Allow initialization of data structures such as arrays and structures
- > that are of the auto storage class, as ANSI requires.
-
- This is being done, chiefly because it happens to have become an issue
- with one of our cross compilers. I personally suggest avoiding auto
- aggregrate initialization - it's rarely the best solution to a given
- problem.
-
- Clyde
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