Kai_Henningsen@ms.maus.de (Kai Henningsen) (05/08/91)
shap shap @ shasta.Stanford.EDU schrieb am 03.05.1991, 01:10 ss>>If you're compliant, you're portable. ss> ss>While I happen to agree with this sentiment, there is an argument that X ss>hundred million lines of C code can't be wrong. The problem with ss>theology is that it's not commercially viable. ss> ss>Reactions? Well, very few of this hundred million lines of C code are BOTH correct and not portable to 64 bit, unchanged. While porting software from Unix to DOS, I found lots of errors (yes, errors, not bad style or somesuch) - I found MUCH less portability problems (though there were some). And I found that ANSIfying the code and heeding ALL compiler warnings eliminates most of both (and improves the readability). Once you have a prototype generator (there are several), this is not too difficult, only tedious. MfG Kai