home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: cs.tu-berlin.de!jutta
- From: jutta@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jutta Degener)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: itoa() in C for unix >>>
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 11:49:46 GMT
- Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- Message-ID: <4l5a8q$8m7@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
- References: <1996Apr12.121207@topaz> <DpwpuM.Iop@ceco.ceco.com> <3172B351.1776@braunschweig.netsurf.de> <4l35f4$qe6@info1.sdrc.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: kugelbus.cs.tu-berlin.de
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
- larry.jones@sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
-
- >In article <3172B351.1776@braunschweig.netsurf.de>, Dieter Luecking
- >> <luecking@braunschweig.netsurf.de> writes:
- >> Notice: itoa() is NOT ANSI, however _itoa() is ANSI. Thus look for _itoa().
- >
- > No, it's not. There are *no* ANSI/ISO standard names that begin with
- > an underscore -- such names are generally reserved for implementation-
- > specific things.
-
- Note that the character at the beginning of __LINE__, __FILE__, and
- __STDC__, while frequently typeset as an underscore, is actually an
- extremely lower-case dash.
-
- (But, yes, the bit about _itoa being ANSI is nonsensical, and Larry is
- right as far as function names are concerned.)
-
- Jutta
-