mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (06/06/89)
Instead of worrying about ANSI-C to old-C translaters, why not just get ANSI-C compilers? There are things (i.e. passing float parameters) that are impossible in old-C. In any case, the best-selling C compilers already have large hunks of ANSI-C in them.
diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) (06/08/89)
In article <229900005@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Instead of worrying about ANSI-C to old-C translaters, why not just >get ANSI-C compilers? Why not avoid the whole mess and just get Ada compilers? :-I (irony) >There are things (i.e. passing float parameters) that are impossible >in old-C. It was possible in old-C by wrapping it in a struct. Just like arrays. >In any case, the best-selling C compilers already have large hunks >of ANSI-C in them. Yes, but it doesn't much help people who have to use unpopular machines which use poorly-selling C compilers. I'm not in that boat, but on their behalf, I urge you to use some sense. -- Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net) The above opinions are my own. However, if you see this at Waterloo, Stanford, or Anterior, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.