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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Porting to X-Windows App to FreeBSD
Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:47:50 GMT
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"Ben Hantz" <klondike@pacific.net.sg> wrote:

> ..., and have run into many problems with
> the calls to the X library, e.g. invalid argument types, invalid number of
> arguments to "Xfunction".

Perhaps the commercial compilers weren't strict in enforcing ANSI
prototypes?

Without you quoting a little part of your code here, nobody can tell
you for sure.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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