[OT] Visual C++ question

[junkforjerry at hotmail.com (jerry)]

> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:26:30PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > tool. A good C program should compile and run on GCC on Linux, Unix,
> > Cygwin or on Windows as a console app compiled under Visual C++.

true enough. My prof at NEU stated the compiler requirement on day one. Her
reason was that nether she nor the TA's wanted to get questions like "how do
I .... under Visual Studios?".


----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Martin" <blu at sophic.org>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Visual C++ question


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> While I agree with this 100%, I ran into a situation where I initially
> received a failing grade on an assignment because the workstations I
> did my homework on had old versions of the C libraries, and a
> particular standard library function (I think it may have been
> fscanf(), but I don't really remember and it doesn't really matter) in
> a critical peice of code had a different return value on the
> workstations (old DEC workstations running some ancient version of
> Ultrix) than it did on the CS server (a newer Alpha server running
> OSF/1).  On one system, the function returned zero if there was an
> error, and on the other it returned -1.  Or something like that.  I'm
> a bit sketchy on the details (this was 6 years ago), but the point is
> that the value returned evaluated to TRUE on one, and FALSE on the
> other.
>
> After demonstrating to the TA that it ran perfectly on the
> workstations, and explaining why the results were different (which the
> TA verified), my grade was changed to A.  :)
>
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