From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 29 14:30:31 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1510314D22; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 14:30:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA35707; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:30:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:30:19 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200001292230.RAA35707@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc In-Reply-To: <20000129135134.C70968@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3892AB60.85F0B786@jonny.eng.br> <20000129150358.Q31717@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200001292036.PAA35163@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000129135134.C70968@dragon.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < said: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 03:36:26PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> > A point that I brought up and obrien confirmed. Using stranything() is a >> > violation of the ANSI standard. Everyone keeps ignoring that. >> >> Um, no it isn't. > Can you explain what part of the ANSI-C standard below you don't understand. You quote precisely the section which proves my point. > Section 4.13.7 General Utilities > Function names that begin with {\bf str} and a lowercase letter > (followed by any combination of digits, letters, and underscore) may > be added to the declarations in the header. Nowhere in this paragraph does it say ``by ANSI/ISO''. These are identifiers which are prohibited to *users*, not to The Implementation. (This should be obvious: the only way a new such identifier would be added to the standard is if it first appears in some implementation.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message