SGI C ANSI-complient or not???

[Russell J Fulton;ccc032u]

davea at quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson) writes:

>In article <29042.27dd4bf4 at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> brownrigg at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>I keep seeing posts of people suggesting that the SGI c compiler is
>>ANSI complient.  I must be missing something here, because the version
>>we have on our new 4D/25 (and any other version for that matter) is so
>>[<censored :-)>] K&R that it doesn't understand "void *" as a data type.

>Best guess: you are still running release 3.2.

>Release 3.3 cc understands void, void *.   ANSI C was first released
>this year (for use with release 3.3).

Yes 3.3 has void and can handle prototypes but is still not a full ANSI C
compiler. If I remember correctly the man pages explcitly say it isn't.

>Regards,
>[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea at sgi.com ]
>[``What can go wrong?''                           --Calvin to Hobbes]

Cheers,

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton at aukuni.ac.nz>