[5768] in Athena Bugs
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John F Carr)
Sat Aug 18 21:08:51 1990
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 90 21:08:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: jfc@MIT.EDU, Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9008190051.AA08912@CRONOS.MIT.EDU>
I am not prepared to claim that all ANSI compilers use an argument
passing convention in the presence of prototypes with ellipsis that
matches what I wrote. I know this works for hc. There exist versions
of gcc for which it would fail.
ANSI compilers _should_ come with <std*.h> header files. Gcc does, and
it is the only ANSI compiler we have for the vax. We should complain to
IBM that hc did not include these header files (but we should not wait
for they or metaware to provide them).
I do not consider gcc <stdarg.h> stable, and don't want to wait on a
stable version (adding the average time from software submission to
appearance in a release to the present date, I feel I may have waited
too long already for 7.2).
