Date   : Wed, 03 Dec 1986 19:25:08 GMT
From   : Jon Mandrell <jon@amc.uucp>
Subject: Re: CP/M 80 C

In article <1211@brl-adm.ARPA> lesh@BRL.ARPA (ISC | howard) writes:
>2) the latest release of the Eco-C compiler is 3.47.  They too men-
>   tioned support for System V pre-processor directives.  The person
>   I talked to would not guarentee that a "bug" I was told was in
>   their CP/M 80 C compiler had been fixed.  (He says that K&R say
>   that there is supposed to be a space between the function name and
>   the left paran.)
>   (or at least that there is some scripture somewhere which justifies
>   their not making a change)

  I think this is backwards.  I use ECO-C (version 3.10) and you can NOT place
a space between the function call and the open paren.  K&R does NOT say that
a space is valid, but they never say that it isn't.
-- 
Jon Mandrell    (ihnp4!uw-beaver!tikal!amc!jon)
Applied Microsystems Corp.

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