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In article <6081@crash.cts.com> alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) writes:
>But now here comes that "ease of use" point again. I have had to learn
>some strange and "wonderful" things about the MS C compiler, some of
>which were badly documented or undocumented in order to "coax" the
>compiler to deal with code that works, without modification, on 2 other
>systems and 3 other compilers (including the mac under LSC4.0). Does
>that not suggest that there is something wrong with MSC? These other
>compilers have provided mechanisms to cope with segmentation,
>overlaying, internal compiler memory allocation, speedy compilation,
>compliance with standards, internal consistancy of options and accurate
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Joke. I have heard from Mac programmers, that, for example, their C
compiler syntactically accepts prototypes but does not use the
information that they provide in ANY way. This is not compliance with the
ANSI C standard although ANSI C source files are accepted. :-)

Kai Uwe Rommel

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