Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:34:58 -0300
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Grzegorz Nowakowski <krecik AT ii DOT uni DOT wroc DOT pl>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: DJGPP HELP!!!!!
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 09:56 11/08/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On 8 Aug 1996, Grzegorz Nowakowski wrote:
>
>> Is there ANSI C specification available on-line?
>
>ANSI charges quite a lot of money for their spec ($130 I think), so you 
>won't find it anywhere for free.  I usually use "The Standard C" by 
>Plauger et. al. (Micrsosoft Press) and "The Standard C Library" by 
>Plauger as very good replacements.  There is also "Annotated ANSI C" by 
>Schildt (sp?), but I never used it.
>
>> Actually, when I
>> want to write clean code, the only reference I have is BC 3.1 help
>> (which points if such function is in ANSI C or not).  And that's the
>> main reason I keep the compilet on my HD. :-(
>

Another good source on writing "clean C" is the book "C A Reference Manual"
by S. P. Harbison and G. L. Steele jr., PH, 4th ed., 1995, ISBN
0-13-326224-3. In addition to cover the ISO standard including 1994
ammendments, it has an interesting definition of "clean C" which includes
the possibility of compiling a plain C source to be compiled as C++ w/o
generating errors/warning. IMHO it is a good reference to have available!


>Are you kidding??  If all you need to know is whether a function is ANSI
>or not, look at the DJGPP header file that declares it.  Functions that
>are declared after the #ifndef __STRICT_ANSI__ are non-ANSI.  You can test
>existing sources by compiling with "gcc -Wall -ansi": those functions
>which produce warnings saying they are ``implicitly decalred'' are
>non-ANSI. 
>
>
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