On Jun 13, 1:37pm, William J. Earl wrote:
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> If the old headers do not work on the new system, that is a
> bug, not a feature. There had better not be any subtle
> incompatibilities. (New headers will not work on an old system, but
> that is a different problem.)
>-- End of excerpt from William J. Earl
Actually, it isn't a bug because there was a major version change.
Anything can change between 5.3 and 6.2. I know we try to maintain
backwards compatibility but sometimes ANSI requires changes in the
number of parameters, there's a change in the values used to pass to
functions, etc.
I believe our promise is that code compiled on 5.3 will run on 6.2,
not that it will still compile.
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Chris Carlson
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