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Article #5644Re: Re: __STDC__ and POSIX
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 19:42
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 19:42
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In article <12040007@hpfcdc.HP.COM> donn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Donn Terry) writes: >>As an acceptable but slightly less convenient alternative that can >>be coped with easily by POSIX applications adding -D_POSIX_SOURCE to >>CFLAGS in Makefiles: >What's wrong with putting it in the program? That was the intent. I personally don't mind doing that, but I've been told that it would annoy other customers. They may have tens of thousands of source files that they would like to compile with a POSIX-compliant "cc", and apparently it is not considered feasible for them to do a massive global edit of all their source files.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Re: __STDC__ and POSIX Message-ID: <9460@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 20 Jan 89 19:42:29 GMT References: <9436@smoke.BRL.MIL> <12040007@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 11