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Re: Translator and ANSI C

• Posted by CoJaBo <CoJaBo_EUforum_Address at CJBN.net> Nov 26, 2004
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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> Hey, Rob.
> 
> I thought that C was an ANSI standard.  So I don't understand why 7 different
> compilers
> require so much support.  I mean I can understand that different compilers
> have different
> command-line options but why are the .c files different and why do the runtime
> libraries
> have to be different?
> 
> When trying to compile some translated C files with an unsupported compiler, I
> did
> get an error that the compiler couldn't cast an int * to an int ** implicitly.
>  If
> this is an error with one compiler, why is it not an error with another?
That is the main reason I left C. For some reason
what worked on one compiler almost never works on
another. Different compilers have some different
features.

> 
> 
> j.
>