Converting FORTRAN to C

jim at ISM780B.UUCP jim at ISM780B.UUCP
Mon Jan 14 16:44:10 AEST 1985


>This case in
>particular is not under the complete control of the compiler implementor;
>a cross compiler has little control over the target environment, where
>malloc() may not be so wise.

Fine, then a wise implementor.  Lets not quibble.  The point is that a lot of
code compares to &a[sizeof a] and an implementor, whoever it is and whichever
part of the environment s/he has control over, who doesn't take that into
account will get lots of complaints.

-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)



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