From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <01f601c40367$e64a2470$8201a8c0@cc77109e> From: "Bruce Ellis" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <5d2199bf9053e87c62827a04a630fe86@terzarima.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] fp stack overflow -- hypot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:24:35 +1100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1c6b7c1c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 right on that charles, yes the reason that -A is needed to make ape/cc ANSI has to do with all the crap code that has to be compiled with it. anyone gonna conjecture why the ape hypot is not as good as the libc one ... can it just be preplaced? (prototype issues aside.) brucee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Forsyth" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [9fans] fp stack overflow -- hypot > >>I just didn't realize that, unlike pcc, cc does not issue warnings > >>by default. > > no, presumably because too many old programs lacked prototypes, > which indeed they did. > -A stops it turning the checking off.