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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- 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: Fri, 05 Apr 96 15:09:58 GMT
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- In article <dewar.828704810@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes:
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- >Lawrence said
- >
- >"ANSI C defines the ANSI standard library calls. While UNIX(tm) validation
- >may require these that is down to the UNIX and from that the POSIX
- >specification, not the ANSI standard: there is nothing in the ANSI standard
- >that states the UNIX system interface must be one thing or another, rather
- >it is the UNIX standards that define the UNIX system interface with
- >reference to the ANSI C standard."
- >
- >Unix validation?????
- >
- >Unix standards?????
-
- Certainly. In order for an OS to be able to call itself UNIX(tm) it must
- be validated again standards such as POSIX and SPEC1170.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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