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- From: sherborn@mail.amsinc.com (Steve Herborn)
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- Subject: Re: What Are "ANSI Extensions"?
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 14:23:30 GMT
- Organization: American Management Systems
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- russell.brill@jpl.nasa.gov (Russ Brill) wrote:
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- >I just discovered "ANSI Extensions"? How portable are these extensions?
- >How many compilers even know about them? What exactly *are* they? In
- >particular, what is this stuff about "integral type specifiers in enum
- >declarations" and "missing parameters on intrinsic calls"?
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- I don't know exactly how you are using the term, but extensions to the
- ANSI standard for any language are vendor (sometimes platform) specfic
- and usually not very portable.
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