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- From: shafer@CS.ColoState.EDU (spencer shafer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: True Portability?
- Message-ID: <Aug31.145702.60242@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:57:02 GMT
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department
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- With 'C's touted portability, is it unreasonable for a user to expect
- a vendor to offer "source code compatibility" across multiple hardware
- platforms? In other words, I would like to take the same program and
- compile it on different machines and obtain the EXACT same results.
- Keep in mind this includes POSIX, any API's for communications stacks
- and for process to process communications. Is it too much to expect?
- Could the API's be different - parameter order, encoding, etc.? Could
- the runtime libraries be different?
- How can a user require a vondor to provide this? (and then verify it?)
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- I'm interested in any opinions or experiences.
- drlove
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