atof() in SCO UNIX DEV

[Sean Fagan]

In article <orthodontist at dce.ie> em at dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) writes:
>SCO Unix has a compiler that makes a feeble pretense at being ANSI.  It's
>ridiculously inept in some areas.  Look at the definition of offsetof() in
><stddef.h> for example: it evaluates to a (char *) instead of an integer.

Actually, it evaluates to a void*, not a char*.  (We forgot to put in the
cast, it looks like; a simple enough fix if you run into problems with it,
in this respect.)  If you want to be more precice, it evaluates to a
<type-of-member>*.

>I would advise anyone writing C programs on this system to get the GNU
>C compiler.

Provided, of course, they don't want to be compatable with the system,
that's a pretty decent suggestion.  And, of course, they cannot develop DOS,
'286, or OMF products using gcc.

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