Syntax errors in include files????

[Martin Husemann]

btrue at emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM (Barry.True) writes:

>In article <1990May2.152425.24723 at druid.uucp> darcy at druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>>In article <222 at dynasys.UUCP> jessea at dynasys.UUCP () writes:
>>>I'm getting all kinds of syntax errors from include files when I try
>>>to compile stuff - like times.h, types.h.  Can anyone tell me why
>>>I'm getting syntax errors from my include files?  I haven't done any

>You also may have other include files which need to be included before
>these. Since you haven't given much information about what specific things
>the compiler is complaining about I can't give you much more help. You
>might want to check your programmers reference manual if you have one
>handy.

It happend to me when I started using Turbo-C. I called Borland and
they didn't know about any problems. I sent them my source code, and
configuration/project files. They replied: don't use the option "ANSI 
keywords only" when compiling with <dos.h>. It defines some functions
of type "interrupt", which, obviously, isn't an ansi keyword.

I then hacked up my include files to say 
# ifdef __STD_C__
# define interrupt /***/
# endif

It worked fine, also I think, Borland should have done this before
delivering the headers. It wasn't mentioned in the manual ;-) so RTFM
didn't help me much.

I conclude, that programming DOS isn't ANSI-compliant.

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Martin Husemann
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