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In article <1996Mar408.48.01.11162@koobera.math.uic.edu>,
D. J. Bernstein <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu> wrote:
>Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote:
>> D. J. Bernstein <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu> wrote:
>> > Seebach has been making a bunch of false statements on gnu.misc.discuss
>> > about portability, speed, and various other things.
>> Example false statements:

>``There are no interesting programs you can't write entirely within 
>POSIX and ANSI.''

(I didn't realize POSIX sockets don't exist yet.  :) )

>``[ispunct()] has no excuse to assume that char is 8 bits.'' (Of course
>it has an excuse. Whether it's a _good_ excuse is a side issue.)

(Mostly, my point is that ispunct is a library function, and may assume
whatever it pleases.  A user-land equivalent, I believe, has no call to
assume char is 8 bits.)

>``It will hurt because it's incorrect by the only standard applicable.''
>(False hypothesis, false logic, false conclusion.)

I don't see any of these; code which is not strictly conforming, or even
just code which invokes undefined behavior, is worse off than code that
doesn't.

>``void main [has] NO BENEFIT WHATSOEVER.''

>``If declaring main as void really shuts gcc up, there is a bug in
>either gcc or your code.''

Both of these I stand by, and I consider them to be error-free.

>Referring to isalnum || strchr: ``... this version is likely to be
>within 5% of your version, because isalnum is normally blindingly fast,
>and most characters in addresses will be isalnum.''

Blatantly false, except that it might be very close on a machine with
a different implementation.  Becomes true if you include the rest of the
code.

>Referring to RFC 822: ``... '.' must also be quoted.'' (No, not always.)

So I just skimmed the grammar, and saw a list of characters marked "must
be quoted".  Followups on this one to comp.mail.headers.

-s
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