Re: lynx-dev EBCDIC again

[Philip Webb]

990224 pg wrote: 
> 990224 Philip Webb said: 
>> but why does inserting the marked line make a difference: 
>> was it simply a programming error to omit such a line previously? 
>> or was the previous  #error  line supposed to do the job, 
>> but IRIX 5.3 for some reason didn't recognise it? 
> 990224 Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> the  #error  line isn't recognized by some compilers.
> I assumed such a compiler, encountering a nonrecognized construct,
> would treat it as an error, which is what we want.  Silly me.

yes, it's always better not to make assumptions around computers ...
 
> And the mystery remains why PW had difficulties and TD had none.
> Could it be a different compiler?
> Would it be as simple as that TD used gcc & PW IRIX's own compiler?
 
 configure  used  cc ; this is IRIX 5.3 , TD has 6.something .

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