970227: Porting UDunits to PC

Arlindo,

>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:55:48 -0500 (EST) 
>From: Arlindo da Silva <address@hidden>
>Organization: NASA/GSFC
>To: address@hidden (Steve Emmerson)
>Subject: Re: 970227: Porting UDunits to PC 
>Keywords: 199702221703.KAA06697

In the above message, you wrote:

> > What macro?
> > 
> 
> In udunits.h:
> 
> #ifndef       PROTO
> #   if defined(__STDC__) || defined(__GNUC__) \
>       || defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus) || defined(MSDOS)
> #     define  PROTO(a)        a
> #   else
> #     define  PROTO(a)        ()
> #   endif
> #endif
> 
> (I just added the "defined(MSDOS)").

So, the MS/DOS compiler supports prototypes but doesn't define
`__STDC__'?  Yuck!

> > > and it
> > > worked right away!  After that, just small adjustments in greg->julian
> > > functions (which assume 32-bit int). 

This'll be fixed in the next release.

> > So the problem was with the compiler?
> 
> I guess so, I always thought that having complete prototypes was a good
> discipline but not required. The MS compiler seems to depend on it, although
> it would not even give a warning message...
> 
> Should I place a zip file in this directory along with a short note to the
> netcdfgroup?

You can't upload to the contrib/ directory (security, you know).  If
you'll make a zip file available for me to grab, howerver, then I'll
stick it there.

Your posting a short note to the netCDF group would be quite appropriate.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>