robin@medstar.UUCP (Robin Cutshaw) (08/29/85)
I just started working with Xenix for the Altos 8086 box. Other than
being rediculously slow, I have run into two major problems with their
C compiler.
1) The age-old 8-characters of significance problem. IBM Xenix
allows 31 with a modifier to change to other values but no
such luck with Altos Xenix. I guess I should have listened
to my mother about variable names.
2) The structure :
struct abc {
struct def {
int g;
} def;
} abc;
dies on the }def; line saying def already declared. No problem
if no structure lies within another.
Also, executable modules from IBM Xenix are not the least bit compatible
with Altos Xenix (even though no -M2 switch was uses). The hdr program
doesn't even recognize the IBM executable.
-robin
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