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- From: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: C Set/2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.164931.20322@adobe.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 16:49:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: adobe.1992Aug25.164931.20322
- References: <1992Aug25.002130.9416@ttinews.tti.com>
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- Reply-To: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
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- Terry writes
-
- > It't nice to see that compilers are getting smarter (I'm
- > continually bitten at work where we don't have a
- > prototyping compiler), but it'd be nice if the IBM
- > compiler would have told me it was the type of the
- > parameters of my function, not the parameters of the API
- > function.
-
- As an interesting side note, the IBM compiler on AIX
- RS/6000 (you have to be specific :-), has a feature that
- allows *link-time* checking of function parameter values.
- Really great for those extra-large projects that have to
- remain in portable standard C.
-
- (Should I mention the fact that it's effectively a
- requirement because of a combination of the architecture
- and the optimizer's passing of variables through
- registers?)
-
- Scott Byer NeXTMail: byer@adobe.com
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