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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!sdd.hp.com!hp-cv!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!serval!yoda.eecs.wsu.edu!hlu 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> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Lines: 20 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. --- gcc/libc maintainer for Linux