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From: hlu@video.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD's non-standard C library
Message-ID: <1992Oct4.202755.24868@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:27:55 GMT
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It is not that hard to make a C library to be both ANSI/POSIX compliant and
compatible with K&R C. I have been doing this for Linux. To compile K&R
codes under Linux, you just need to do

gcc -traditional -c foo.c

If I have the time and disk space, I may take a look at 386bsd.


H.J.