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- From: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
- Subject: Re: ANSI C, was Re: Teaching the basics
- In-Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu's message of 21 Aug 92 15:48:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <NICKEL.92Aug22170604@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: STONE Project, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1992Aug21.154839.2664@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:06:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug21.154839.2664@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
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- > In article <NICKEL.92Aug21010722@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) writes:
- [...]
- > ]> But using this is a major pain on a system without ANSI Header files.
- >
- > IMHO, you should do it anyway. Make your own header files with the
- > appropriate prototypes if you need to. I don't know how many times the
- > prototype for fprintf() has saved me from a core dump when I forgot to
- > include the initial FILE * parameter...
-
- This would mean to rewrite 3 MB of system header files (this is SunOS
- only, but I also work with other platforms), ~1.5 MB of X11 header
- files, etc., for each new release... does anyone volunteer? :-}
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- Juergen Nickelsen
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