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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- 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: 11 Apr 1996 19:28:07 -0400
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Message-ID: <dewar.829265203@schonberg>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.828936837@schonberg> <828964950snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <dewar.828987544@schonberg> <4kbuebINNrho@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <dewar.829048603@schonberg> <4kets3$ic0@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <829194658snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
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- "What Robert is complaining about is that he is reading a 68 byte file by
- requesting 1000 bytes; and that in his opinion, read should stop reading
- at the end of the file, and return control."
-
- First of all, this is not Robert's code, he has not written in C for a
- while. Second, Robert does not particularly have an opinion about what
- read should or should not do!
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- Robert was only pointing this out as an example of non-portability
- caused by sloppy specifications.
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-