ANSI C

[BURNS]

in article <2465 at sud509.ed.ray.com>, heiser at tdw201.ed.ray.com says:
> Anyone here know anything about the ANSI compatibility of Sequents vs
> Harris and/or GCC?  (It MUST be Ansi compatible, since they told us to
> write ANSI code ... hmmm...)

I use Dynix here. (I can never keep Symmetry vs. Balance straight - ours
is the one w/ the 10 parallel 386's.) Anyway, one of our our UA's told me
that Dynix C is horribly non-Ansi. Defining function parameter types
inbetween the ()'s instead of inbetween the ) and {, let alone function
prototypes is a no-no. You'll also run into trouble w/ code sequences like:

main(argc,argv)
int argc;            /* notice where the parm's need to be defined
char ** argv;
{
char tststr[]="This is a test";

Either tststr needs to be defined at 'file scope' - outside of the scope
of a function or main - or needs to be given the static attribute, or else
you'll get an "aggregate initialization error".
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