Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Mixing compilers Message-ID: <1989Sep29.173032.29947@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <816@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <524@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <514.nlhp3@oracle.nl> <4382@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 17:30:32 GMT In article <4382@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >Waitasec... _Is_ there a prohibition in the pANS that says that one >can't use a full set of object-libraries, one that provides all of the >required routines, each with conforming behavior, that were compiled, >say, with SNOBOL? The pANS doesn't require that the libraries be compiled at all. You can enter them in binary from the front-panel switches (assuming you still have a machine which has front-panel switches!), so long as they work. How they come into existence is completely outside the standard. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu