C++ opportunities (really C reentrancy bug)

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1 total messages Started by Bjarne Stroustrup Fri, 28 Feb 1986 18:24

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Author: Bjarne Stroustrup
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1986 18:24

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> Modern C is in fact only partially re-entrant, and the
> standard library is (in many routines) not at all.

Unfortunately the standard C library is hard to fix.

> The only non-re-entrant aspect of C itself is in its handling
> of structures returned from functions.

That is (only) an implementation hack and a bug. The bug is not
in all C/C++ implementations. It deserves no language modification
as a ``fix''.

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