AT&T C compilers

[Guy Harris]

>Although AT&T still hasn't gotten its act together yet,

I think S5R4 will fully support ANSI C (assuming that "ANSI C" exists in
time to make an implementation for S5R4; otherwise, it'll probably
correspond to the last draft that AT&T could reasonably use to build an
implementation).

>ANSI prototypes are definitly worth using

Yes, I think most of us agree; however, the fact is that not all UNIX C
compilers support them, so you either have to live with that or get a
compiler such as GCC that does support them.

>Does any one know why AT&T is delaying so much?

No, perhaps they decided not to put out an "old C plus prototypes"
compiler as a stopgap measure?

>Standard UNIX C still barfs on things like p=-1 .

The System V C compiler may issue a warning, but it interprets that
statement as "assign -1 to 'p'".  It certainly doesn't "barf" on it.