From: Bengt.Kleberg@uab.ericsson.se (Bengt Kleberg)
To: woods@weird.com, byron@netapp.com
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: RC => POSIX
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:33:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199703260833.JAA02345@uabx04c397.uab.ericsson.se> (raw)
> >Byron has written that it is better to be portable than POSIX. He even
> >mentioned ANSI C as a stumbeling block for portablility. To be
> >consequent I therefore suggest that ANSI C is dropped (or POSIX adopted :-)
>
> I'm not sure what you are saying here. I think I mentioned that
> the fake ansi headers that rc ships are an obstacle to portability.
> That doesn't have much to do with ansi C.
>
I apologise for any confusion (especially if my email, by mistake, can
be considered negative towards Mr Rakitzis).
I interpreted Mr Rakitzis previous message as a suggestion that ANSI
function prototypes should go, since K&R C is more portable (available
on more systems).
Best Wishes, Bengt
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next reply other threads:[~1997-03-26 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-26 8:33 Bengt Kleberg [this message]
1997-03-26 16:38 ` Greg A. Woods
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-03-29 20:23 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-27 9:58 Malte Uhl
1997-03-26 11:54 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-26 16:45 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-25 22:30 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-24 9:18 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-24 20:22 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-08 0:13 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-06 17:40 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 17:15 Alan Watson
1997-03-06 17:54 ` Scott Schwartz
[not found] <199703061512.KAA21040@explorer2.clark.net>
1997-03-06 16:57 ` Malte Uhl
1997-03-06 16:54 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 15:22 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 14:09 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-06 13:46 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 10:16 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-07 1:45 ` Greg A. Woods
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