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- From: Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch>
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- Subject: Re: Where to find PORTABLE source?
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:39:14 +0100
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- sfeil@io.com (Steven Feil) writes:
-
- >I don't think I made my dilemma clear in my last posting. The problem I am
- >facing is due to the nature on machine independent code. I want to write
- >portable code, so I can compile my program on different operating systems.
- >This is why I'm looking for ANSI code. When I try looking for source code
- >one of the first questions I'm faced with is what operating system I'm
- >using. I DON'T CARE is not an option I am given. So, maybe, I should have
- >asked does anybody know of a good place to find machine independent ANSI C
- >source code, or algorithms. Right now I'm looking for math type source,
- >however would also appreciate I good store house for other ANSI source
- >code. As of yet I have not found a single place that has machine
- >independent source code.
-
- P.J. Plauger, _The Standard C Library_, Prentice Hall, 1992, ISBN 0-13-
- 131509-9.
-
- With insignificant exceptions (explicitly pointed out by the author) the
- book contains portable ANSI C code.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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