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Article #6137Re: Escape sequences for printf() defined by SVID
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 01:44
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 01:44
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In article <1974@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>For that matter, what has SVID got to do with the C
>language, and why are they even mentioning this? X3J11 didn't respecify
>the unix calls ;-)
At the time the SVID was being developed, there was no C standard, so
apparently AT&T included some standard libraries as part of the System V
spec. Otherwise, a system could claim to be compatible with System V even
though its C libraries are incompatible. Since most programs use more than
just the system calls, specifying just the Unix system calls would be
insufficient to promote a decent amount of portability.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Escape sequences for printf() defined by SVID Keywords: escape sequences printf SVID Message-ID: <32609@news.Think.COM> Date: 4 Jan 90 01:44:05 GMT References: <1990Jan3.144808.6319@sssab.se> <1974@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 16