Re: why unsigned char not work
* Stephen Horne:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:16:49 +0200, "Alf P. Steinbach"
<alfps@start.no> wrote:
You can't sell such a compiler, since source code using any API won't be correct.
You package it with an API-wrapper that presents a C89-compliant
interface such as, for example, one that gives source-level Win32
compatibility plus a few extensions.
He he.
Have you considered such things as documentation, the constant stream of new
APIs from Microsoft, etc.?
Good luck.
If someone is really that
desperate for a C89-compliant compiler on 64 bit Windows, thats
probably exactly what they need.
It opposite: no one, except some participants in this discussion, is paying the
slightest attention to the C committee's resolution of the DR, and that in
particular means that no compiler vendor is paying attention to the committee's
earlier (before C99) completely at-odds-with-reality stand. ;-)
Failing that, there's a surprising amount of command-line apps out
there - some people only need the standard libraries.
Again, good luck. :-)
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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