Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Mixing compilers Message-ID: <11162@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 28 Sep 89 02:23:25 GMT References: <816@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <524@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <514.nlhp3@oracle.nl> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 11 In article <514.nlhp3@oracle.nl> bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes: >Does the pANS say anything about linking programs compiled with >different compilers, e.g. in the case above. You might even not know >which compiler was used to compile the libraries. Of course not. How could it? I understand your concern, but it's not the C Standard's job to address such issues. Compiler vendors and the computer vendor should address such system-specific issues. For example, DEC supposedly has a language interface standard for VAXes.