"C" on Atari looks pretty wierd

[Stephan W. Wendl]

> Xref: kontron comp.sys.atari.st:478 comp.lang.c:489
> 
> Do Atari C compilers really accept these?  What do they do?
> 
> Also, the library routines used are almost totally bonkers.  E.g.
> to open a file they use Fopen rather than fopen.  To read it's Fread.
> To scan a directory it's Fsfirst and Fsnext rather than opendir and
> readdir.  For malloc/free they even use Malloc/Mfree!  What was wrong
> with the old names, did they make software too easy to port?
> 
> -- 
> John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore at lll-crg.arpa


I don't know about the '//' but the line behind references gem calls.

About the library routines: apearently there quite some bugs in the lib functions
and one way to get arround is to use macros which just convert into trap calls. 
That effectivly makes the program work and quite shorter in codesize.