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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- 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: 16 Apr 1996 17:02:30 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4l0jr6$lk5@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829399701@schonberg> <4kuble$35k@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829628593@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.829628593@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >"There are limits to what can be accomplished this way. ANSI
- >C and traditional C are different languages."
- >
- >True, but the coding standards of GCC require remaining compatible with
- >both, and this is certainly achievable in practice.
-
- It will always be an uphill battle to provide Standard C semantics
- in programs that will be linked against traditional C libraries.
- Luckily (?) the old-style libraries no longer present a moving
- target for developers, so workarounds for their brokenness/archaic
- charm/whatever will stick once they're implemented.
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- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
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