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According to Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>: :+Most C compilers are now ANSI-compliant. However, a few current :+computers, notably from Hewlett-Packard and Sun, are delivered with an :+older C compiler expressly for rebuilding the system kernel. Such Note however that this is not technically true. Sun has not for quite some time 'delivered' a non-ANSI compliant compiler. That's because a number of years ago they quit including a C compiler with the OS. What you may want to say is something like "people using antique versions of OSes will of course realize that there is a likelihood that their out of date, no longer supported OS may be so old as to not have such a compiler. Sun delivers a _wrapper_ called /usr/ucb/cc . This wrapper at one time attempted to juggle paths, libraries and include files to generate a compile/link using UCB compatible libraries. It invoked whatever compiler one had on the system. -- <URL: http://dev.scriptics.com/> <URL: mailto:lvirden@cas.org> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/> Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -><-Thread Previous | Thread Next