Turbo C 2.0 on XT 286

[Martin v.d. Boogaard]

In article <500 at ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> I wrote:

>Recently I used the dos.h file supplied with Borland's Turbo C 2.0 on
>a few PC's. It worked fine on a Philips XT and on several AT's but it
>gives rise to some unjustified compilation errors when it is used on
>my XT 286 machine. The instruction set setting (8088,80286...) didn't
>seem to matter.
>
>Anybody any idea?

Both david at csource.oz.au (through email) and darcy at druid
(
> No one's clairvoyant here.  Can you tell us what the error messages are.
)
asked for the error messages.

Sorry, I didn't expect clairvoyancy, I just thought it was one of those C
problems that have obvious solutions. TC complained about illegal function
declarations in lines 180 and 211 of dos.h. Off course the solution was even
more trivial than I thought it would be: switch off the `ANSI keywords only'
option; if you don't, TC's `interrupt' function-definition attribute is not
recognized as such. Somewhere in the past I must have decided to use only ANSI
C on that specific machine.


Martin J. van den Boogaard

Dept. of Atomic & Interface Physics, Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht

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