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- From: cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com (The Right Reverend Colin James III)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 15:16:49 GMT
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- emery@grebyn.com (David Emery) posted with deletions:
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- | In article <828445854snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, fred@genesis.demon.co.uk wrote:
- |
- | > ANSI C doesn't define UNIX OS calls so isn't really relevant to your point.
- | > Unix calls are reasonably standardised for C through the likes of POSIX and
- | > X/Open which is natural because C is the core development language for
- | > the platform.
- | >
- | > --
- | > -----------------------------------------
- | > Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- | > Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
- | > -----------------------------------------
- |
- | This is not exactly true. The POSIX.1 standard make extensive use of
- | facilities in the ANSI C standard. Chapter 2 contains a list of library
- | calls of ANSI C "included" in POSIX (e.g. malloc(), while Chapter 8
- | contains C-specific facilities, that refine the behavior of some ANSI
- | C library routines such as file stream IO.
- |
- | dave
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- Apparently pitiful, forgetful Dave Emery thinks this relates to Ada.
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