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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] C99
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:19:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010227131948.88CC8199F1@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

	Is there any plan to update ape/cc to be C99 compliant?

Whoops.  I misread this, thinking it said "way" not "plan".

A slightly helpful answer: I printed the spec and got _very_
scared away.  In my cynical view, it's not clear how much
good it would do anyway.  The even larger can of worms is the
Single Unix spec.  I doubt the number of exactly conforming
C99/SUSV programs is much higher than the number of exactly
conforming ANSI/POSIX programs currently in existence.

A few weeks ago, I rewrote u9fs with the Single Unix spec
in hand, so that it would just compile everywhere without
any changes whatsoever.  But it was not to be.  As usual,
vendors' implementations vary in subtle ways so that we're
still not at "write once, compile & run anywhere" in any
real sense.

Russ


             reply	other threads:[~2001-02-27 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-27 13:19 Russ Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-04 18:34 Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-04 19:24 ` erik quanstrom
2001-02-28  2:51 okamoto
2001-02-27 14:27 forsyth
2001-02-27 14:25 Russ Cox
2001-02-28  9:30 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-27 13:18 rob pike
2001-02-27 13:12 Russ Cox
2001-02-27 10:43 David Rubin

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