Re: why still use C?

From: Default User (first.last_at_boeing.com.invalid)
Date: 10/22/03 

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:58:51 GMT

Jeremy Yallop wrote:
>
> Default User wrote:
> > "E. Robert Tisdale" wrote:
> >
> >> My GNU C compiler easily detects the missing declaration for malloc
> >> with or without the cast.
> >
> > There's no requirement for an implementation to do the above.
>
> There is such a requirement in C99, where calling an undeclared
> function is an error (a syntax error, if footnotes are to be
> believed).

And when fully compliant C99 compilers become the norm, then we'll talk
again. I don't have one, do you?

Brian Rodenborn

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