Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > Thanks. I'm a student and just getting started and my instructor was > telling the class how the schools version copies of MS Visual C 6.0 is > not C99 compliant and that some of the examples in the book[0] fail to > compile. I read up on GCC 3.3.5 and it appears that it is mostly > compliant with a few issues, including the variable length arrays > which happens to be on one of my homework assignments. But it looks > like I'll be ok.
Aside from the compiler, you need to consider the C library if you have to have full C99 compliance for some reason. It doesn't appear that it's all done yet in OpenBSD's libc. Or at least the %a format specifier for printf isn't there. But I bet you won't end up needing that. > By the way, if anyone has any pointers (no pun intended) for a CS > newbie, any help and recommendations are always appeciated. I like the > OpenBSD development community and hope to contribute some code and > patches in the future. > I took a course once and read some source from OpenBSD userland to try to supplement what I was learning. It seemed much nicer reading than the GNU source for the same programs - clearer, more direct and to the point. If feasible I'd ignore the book your professor assigned and read The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie and C, A Reference Manual, by Harbison and Steel instead. Some professors feel an obligation to assign so called easier (and bulkier) texts. It's a waste of your time to read those sorts of books. I can only imagine that anything with the words "a structured approach to..." in the title is not going to be any fun. -- Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]
