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- From: schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 11:04:38 GMT
- Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
- Message-ID: <4guog6$45na@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
- References: <8BA8405.02C70020DE.uuout@sourcebbs.com> <4g20q6$lro@redstone.interpath.net> <danpop.824685808@rscernix> <bnelsonDnFG3r.Ks6@netcom.com>
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- In article <bnelsonDnFG3r.Ks6@netcom.com>,
- Bob Nelson <bnelson@netcom.com> wrote:
- >On 18 Feb 96 23:23:28 GMT, Dan Pop wrote:
- >>> In softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan) writes:
- >
- >>> >Where does Herb Schildt get his nutty ideas about "void main()"?
- >
- >>> Obvious answer: from his thick skull.
- >
- >Though not as likely as the answer offered above, he may have also been
- >influenced by an organization that favors the void main() approach:
- >The Free Software Foundation of Cambridge, MA. Most of their utilities
- >consistently declare main in this non-standard manner. It's rather
- >surprising that Stallman allows this form of ignorance to bear the GNU
- >banner.
-
- And that's not all there is to it. From the GNU Coding Standards:
-
- It remains necessary to worry about differences among cpu types, such
- as the difference in byte ordering and alignment restrictions. It's
- unlikely that 16-bit machines will ever be supported by GNU, so there
- is no point in spending any time to consider the possibility that an
- `int' will be less than 32 bits.
-
- You can assume that all pointers have the same format, regardless of
- the type they point to, and that this is really an integer. There are
- some weird machines where this isn't true, but they aren't important;
- don't waste time catering to them. Besides, eventually we will put
- function prototypes into all GNU programs, and that will probably make
- your program work even on weird machines.
-
- I can't believe it. The moderator of c.l.c.m has started a thread on this
- and asks C programmers to complain to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu about it.
- I also posted my thoughts to gnu.misc.discuss.
-
- Time for a change, isn't it?
-
- Bye, Jens
-
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