Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:43:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: stdenis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
cc: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: portable code
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, stdenis wrote:

> > 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?

In this particular example, yes.  But ``portability'' isn't limited to 
ANSI-compliant systems.