Re: sdiff code error

[Andreas Schwab]

"Paul Edwards" <address@hidden> writes:

>>> But writing to memory location 0 is not a good idea!
>
>> It doesn't actually do that.
>
> It doesn't?

No, it doesn't.

>> (Wondering what obsolete system that is, which does not have
>> sigprocmask. :-) )
>
> I'm porting a lot of stuff to MVS 3.8 (IBM mainframe),
> now that I have ported gcc 3.2.3 to it.  It is a pure C89
> environment.  Text processing utilities should be
> C89-compliant by default.

Signal handling isn't exactly the best specified part of the C standard.

Andreas.

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