[OT] Visual C++ question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:20:57 -0500
Derek Martin <blu at sophic.org> wrote:

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> 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++.
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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, 
I don't recall is Ultrix had a fully ANSI C. The standard library
functions, such as fscanf, may have had different return values before
ANSI C. (ANSI C fscanf returns the number of conversions). I'm not all
that strict in that I give my students some leeway. Most work full time
and can't be expected to hand around the college every day. 

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