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Quote:>I'm having difficulty understanding why my code wouldn't work
>on (it seems like) anything other than AIX or NeXT.
>extern int in_list (char *, logins *); /* CODE DIES HERE */
>The code always produces a syntax error at the first line
>following the thread typedef. This behaviour has been observed
>with both SunOS (4.1.2 (?)) on IPC, and DYNIX V3.2.0. Doing
>a `lint' on only this code produces many syntax errors. So
>does the standard `cc' compilers.

Quote:>Any suggestions ? About five programmers looked at the code
>and shrugged,

:I'm having difficulty understanding why my code wouldn't work
:on (it seems like) anything other than AIX or NeXT. Here's the
:fragment it is having difficulty dealing with:

Use an ANSI C compiler like gcc on those SunOS and Ultrix systems and
see how well your code compiles.

:)

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Summary of solutions include installing an ANSI C compiler (either
commercial or GCC) on all the sites, or translating the code to
K&R either manually or by using unprotoize.

Thanks for the reality check,

-Ade Barkah
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(from finder.h)

/*-- finder.h begins here */

#define MAXNAME         20
#define MAXHANDLE       25
#define MAXADDRESS      255
#define FINGER          79
#define BUFLEN          65535
#define PACKET          1024
#define TRUE            1
#define FALSE           0

struct buffer_struct
{
        char name[MAXNAME];
        char handle[MAXHANDLE];
        char address[MAXADDRESS];
        struct buffer_struct *next;
        struct buffer_struct *prev;
        short logged;

Quote:};

struct login_struct
{
        char *login;
        struct login_struct *next;

Quote:};

struct thread_struct
{
        names *pointer;
        struct thread_struct *next;

Quote:};

extern int in_list (char *, logins *); /* CODE DIES HERE */
extern thread *group (names *);
extern void process_group (thread *);
extern logins *grep (char *);
extern names *sort_insert (names *, names *);
extern char *finger (char *);

#ifdef NEEDS_STRDUP
char *strdup (char *);
#endif

/*---end of finder.h---*/

The code always produces a syntax error at the first line
following the thread typedef. This behaviour has been observed
with both SunOS (4.1.2 (?)) on IPC, and DYNIX V3.2.0. Doing
a `lint' on only this code produces many syntax errors. So
does the standard `cc' compilers.

SunOS quit compiling with `too many errors.' Trying it with
Dynix and Ultrix gives similar results.

Now, here's the mystery: when I was writing the code, I worked
mainly with AIX 3.2 and the NeXT. The above code (in fact the
whole program) didn't produce _any_ errors (using standard cc.)
Not even a warning.

Any suggestions ? About five programmers looked at the code
and shrugged, it looks fine to us (and to the AIX and NeXT
compilers.) Of course, we could be overworked, and perhaps
our computers have been turned on for too long.

Regards,

-Ade Barkah.
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