Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!oacb2 From: oacb2@ut-ngp.UUCP (oacb2) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Lattice/UNIX incompatibility Message-ID: <1157@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 22:41:23 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1157 Posted: Sun Dec 30 22:41:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 00:54:22 EST References: <6845@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 12 >> 3. Every declaration of an external variable but >> one must say 'extern'. > For any linker that supports FORTRAN, this restriction shows a lack of > imagination on the part of the c compiler writers. Don't get me started > on this; it's a favorite flame. Or, perhaps, just a desire for C to work correctly. K & R specify this behavior and doing otherwise invites nonportable code. -- Mike Rubenstein, OACB, UT Medical Branch, Galveston TX 77550