Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:57:16 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Borland 16bit bcc vs cc/gcc (float) Message-ID: <199706030357.XAA06150@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706012334.JAA16113@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:04:21 %2B0930 (CST))
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>>> I wonder if there would be any chance of shipping K&R 2ed in soft form >>> with the system? It's my favoured reference 8) >> Really? I find that the items which I frequently need to refer to are >> library calls, which aren't discussed in any great detail (where they >> are discussed at all). > Library calls are necessarily fairly system-specific; that's what > manpages are for. The most commonly observed problems here are > conceptual problems with the syntax and usage of the basic language. System calls are necessarily system-specific. If I have the stdio interface different on two different OS's, then I'm going to be fairly peeved. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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