Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!proline!leech From: leech@proline.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Save CPP! Message-ID: <5692@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 23:58:02 GMT References: <5202@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: leech@proline.UUCP (Jonathan Leech) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 18 Summary: Expires: Sender: Distribution: Keywords: In article <5202@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> josh@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Joshua Marantz) writes: >In addition, you may want to take advantage of syntactic extensions offered by >specific compilers. For example, the VAX C compiler on VMS allows you to take >addresses of constants to facilitate calling VAX run time library routines, >which generally take their arguments by reference. An even more basic problem (again with VMS) is that virtually every reference to a library call or globally defined symbol involves an identifier containing '$', not allowed on other implementations. Followups to comp.lang.misc, please. -- Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/ ``It seemed to him that in addition to being beautiful she brought out all that was best in him of intellect and soul. That is to say, she let him talk oftener and longer than any girl he had ever known.'' - P. G. Wodehouse