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From: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: gcc 2.2.2 or 386BSD bug?
Message-ID: <1992Jun24.234719.13882@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 92 23:47:19 GMT
References: <1992Jun23.194137.3165@email.tuwien.ac.at> <1992Jun23.232355.1382@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jun24.053953.5550@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Jun24.210332.7464@kithrup.COM>
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In article <1992Jun24.210332.7464@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <1992Jun24.053953.5550@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) writes:
>>>I don't know of any UNIX (or any
>>>other OS, for that matter) written in entirely conforming ANSI C.
>>Take a look at Linux.
>
>Last time I looked at it, Linux used inline assembly statements.  It is not,
>therefore, a conforming application.
>

Ok, I take it back. There will never be an OS which is not built on top
of another and written in entirely conforming ANSI C, unless ANSI C
changes.

BTW, Linux uses prototyping for all functions if it matters.


H.J.
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gcc/libc maintainer for Linux