Hi Mike,

[Borland C++ Version 1.00]

 MB> Version 1.00?!  I think I have that somewhere.  I don't recall ever even
 MB> getting it to run.  There was a v1.01 massive bug fix and then a v1.50
 MB> that actually worked, followed by the v2.00 that seems to have been
 MB> the swansong.

Altough i have mailed the registration card as soon as in july 1993,
Borland never bother me to inform that a bugfix was available. Maybe the
available bugs did not apply to me, i do not write PM code, only plain
text.

 MB> First, "signal()" had better be prototyped in SIGNAL.H or
it is an ANSI
 MB> violation.

Neither IBMs cc nor Borlands cc provide that info in their header files. I
grep'd the entire OS/2 disk for include files containing 'signal', however
nothing found.

 MB> Second, compiler internals are not named common things such as
 MB> "emergency," and any such names are preceded by a double
underscore.

Thanks, i did not know that, being not natively speaking English, emergency
is to me as common as exit.

 MB> The signal handler function must take an 'int' and return 'void' -- as
 MB> required by ANSI.

Most and for all since the printed manual (run time library) states that
these are the correct types.

 MB> If your ancient Borland compiler doesn't understand this, it is broken.

David Noon knows how to fix it:

_USERENTRY emergency(int sig);

does the trick for Borland. icc does not understand the type _USERENTRY, void works.

[IBM's icc]

 MB> What does this tell you?  ICC is a fairly strict compiler.

Using /w3 as flags, no remarks at all, it is clean code.

 HdA>> the fact that a signal function is invoked, is sufficient to fflush the
 HdA>> buffers both of the redirected i/o as well as the streamed file.

 MB> This is not really a solution.

It does not have to be a solution. The program in which i tested the
signal() function, is merely a test program. Nowthat i know how to redirect
my debugging data to file, i can start solving the real problem: how to
remove the cause of the traps in my program, since i do not like coredumps.


73 es cuagn,
 Henk

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