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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- 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: 8 Apr 1996 20:29:59 -0500
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.828936837@schonberg> <828964950snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <dewar.828987544@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.828987544@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Can you quote the relevant standard. No description of read I ever saw
- >was detailed or precise enough to say what the requirements on the caller
- >are.
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- If it is not specified, it's undefined. At least, that's how C does it;
- no guarantees for POSIX.
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