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Re: lynx-dev EBCDIC again
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev EBCDIC again |
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Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:23:38 -0500 (EST) |
990224 pg wrote:
> 990224 Philip Webb said:
>> but why does inserting the marked line make a difference:
>> was it simply a programming error to omit such a line previously?
>> or was the previous #error line supposed to do the job,
>> but IRIX 5.3 for some reason didn't recognise it?
> 990224 Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> the #error line isn't recognized by some compilers.
> I assumed such a compiler, encountering a nonrecognized construct,
> would treat it as an error, which is what we want. Silly me.
yes, it's always better not to make assumptions around computers ...
> And the mystery remains why PW had difficulties and TD had none.
> Could it be a different compiler?
> Would it be as simple as that TD used gcc & PW IRIX's own compiler?
configure used cc ; this is IRIX 5.3 , TD has 6.something .
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