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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:15:56 -0400
From: stdenis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
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To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: portable code
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> 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