On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:51:59 -1000, Joseph Kowalski said: > > > From: Trond Hasle Amundsen <t h amundsen usit uio no> > ... > > Valdis Kletnieks vt edu writes: > > > > 2) Sun's compiler is actually standards-busticated, and defining that just > > > *seems* to work, but papers over any deficiencies. Also bad news. > > Aside: > Sun's compilation system is actually the "Gold Standard" of standards > conformance. Since I work for Sun, I don't expect you to take my word for > it. If you can find contacts in the standards groups, ask them. > > I hope these aren't fighting words. If you disagree, please keep it to > yourself and just dismiss the above as one lunatic's delusion. Listed for completeness only. I was enumerating all the possibilities, and later on, said that quick investigation indicated this wasn't the case. (And though Sun's *current* stuff seems to be quite good, there's still a lot of legacy boxes out there - just in the last month, I actually had somebody ask how to get Sendmail 8.13.7 (just released) to compile on a Solaris 2.5.1 box. Fortunately for my sanity, I sent back a snarky "The same way you got 8.13.6 to build" - and I got back a "Thanks, that worked". I decided not to ask further, as there are some things Man Was Not Meant To Know. :) > Goodness and truth should be found in selecting the appropriate -X[c|a|t|s] > flag and probably setting -D__EXTENSIONS__ on the cc command line. -X. *that* was it. Why was I totally unable to find that when I was looking at the manpages and *looking* for the compiler switch that did that? :) <makes mental note to double-check if that particular Sun box actually has the compilers installed - almost all of my coding on *that* box has been shell and perl scripts. And then figure out what I found that convinced me there were multiple personalities available, if I wasn't finding -Xa in the manpage..>
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