[comp.lang.c] VAX signal

peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (10/18/89)

I can't believe that you guys are still flaming about the varargs nature
of the VAX/VMS prototype for signal(). That's not the weird part if you've
ever used VMS C (try ``open(name, mode, "tag=value", "tag=value")''). The
weird part is that it takes an (int *)() and returns a (void *)() (or the
other way around). What, you need to cast the return value of signal()
before you can pass it back to itself?
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