Advanced UNIX Programming

Summary

This chapter has been a primer of sorts, to prepare you for all of those nasty compile issues that jump out at you when you begin a new project or port an old project on a new UNIX platform. The relatively standard compile options were covered to give you a quick start. You may find, however, that you still need to visit the vendor-specific options that were not discussed here. For example, HP has options that permit you to choose different instruction sets for the different PA-RISC platforms that are supported by the compiler.

You also learned (or reviewed) some tips on how to eliminate warning messages. This should enable you to keep the highest level of warnings enabled on your compiler and still accomplish tasks that the compiler ...