From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 5 10:16:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0DB1544C for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA24782; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:16:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA20023; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:16:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:16:28 -0700 Message-Id: <200001051816.LAA20023@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: Martin Cracauer , mauzi@poli.hu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler In-Reply-To: <98339.947095734@monkeys.com> References: <20000105100716.A63545@cons.org> <98339.947095734@monkeys.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [3] The ANSI C standard, at least, contains the requirement that each > individual system include file specified by that standard should > be usable all by itself, without the programmer being required to > explicitly include any OTHER system include files, prior to the one > he/she is actually interested in using. Can you quote me chapter and verse for this? I don't believe this to be true, and in truth, I believe this is completely wrong. Many system include files are *NOT* for public consumption. Also, include files should never include other include files, as this messes up dependencies. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message