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Message-ID: <3597857C.5A274035@compmore.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:15:56 -0400
From: stdenis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: portable code
References: <35966659 DOT 4760AC58 AT compmore DOT net> <35971A4C DOT 9F4F0343 AT cartsys DOT com>

> However, it's been my experience that the real portability problems are
> not in the language (which these try to catch), but in the library.
> E.g. some systems return different values from `sprintf', the flags for
> `access' are sometimes missing, etc, etc.  This there currently isn't
> much you can do about automatically, but there's a project in the works
> to include some info on portability in the DJGPP docs.

Wouldn't that mean that the other system is not ANSI C?

tom

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