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Article #2777Re: ANSI C standard library
From: Stephen Clamage
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 22:18
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 22:18
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ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes: >- A large fraction of the ANSI C library can't be written in *strictly >conforming* ANSI C. This was usually the reason of putting it in the >library in the first place - without the library function, the programmer >would be up the creek. Thus, if you want a strictly conforming (guaranteed >to work on any ANSI C compiler) C library, you're out of luck. In the full posting you mentioned only setjmp and longjmp as functions which cannot be written in strictly-conforming C, and memmove which cannot be written efficiently in strictly-conforming C. Can you name any other functions in the standard C library which cannot reasonably be written in strictly-conforming C, or does 2% (3 out of about 150) constitute a "large fraction"? -- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
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