AT&T C compilers

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Wed Mar 1 21:11:14 AEST 1989


In article <1109 at wpi.wpi.edu> lfoard at wpi.wpi.edu (Lawrence C Foard) writes:
>Does any one know why AT&T is delaying so much?

AT&T decided to wait until there is a C standard before releasing
a compiler that is claimed to conform to it.  Since the details of
prototypes MIGHT have changed up until the very last minute, this
avoids customers starting to use the new features and then having
the rug pulled from under them when the features had to be changed.

>Standard UNIX C still barfs on things like p=-1 .

No, it doesn't.


P.S.  Obviously I'm not an official AT&T spokesman.



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