From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 2 21:11:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02037 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 21:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02029 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 21:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA14071 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 21:11:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id XAA06150; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:57:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:57:16 -0400 Message-Id: <199706030357.XAA06150@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au CC: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199706012334.JAA16113@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:04:21 +0930 (CST)) Subject: Re: Borland 16bit bcc vs cc/gcc (float) From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> 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