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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] fp stack overflow -- hypot
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Date: Sat,  6 Mar 2004 21:24:35 +1100
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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" <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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.