[comp.windows.x] Ansi and Athena widgets

mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) (09/28/88)

This may have been hashed out...etc..etc  (standard pre-apology ;-)

Is there planned changes to (at least) the Athena widgets for
compatability with Ansi C compilers?  They restrict token length
to 512 characters (I think).  I have seen this problem since 
Sequent limits it to 2k characters and libXaw still chokes (Text.c)

(The token length is plenty for some things, but it also applies
to initializing strings which is not going to cut it for a lot of code)

I don't want a "Ansi" war here, just whether it is being looked into,
is done, is planned etc etc.  No flames eh?

mtr

swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/29/88)

     Date:  28 Sep 88 15:18:09 GMT
     From:  mace.cc.purdue.edu!mtr@j.cc.purdue.edu  (Miek Rowan)

     Is there planned changes to (at least) the Athena widgets for
     compatability with Ansi C compilers?  They restrict token length
     to 512 characters (I think).  I have seen this problem since 
     Sequent limits it to 2k characters and libXaw still chokes (Text.c)

Nope, not done.  We made one small re-arrangement to help the
MACII compiler, but that's the only one that's complained at
us so far about token length.