Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:30:19 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc Message-ID: <200001292230.RAA35707@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000129135134.C70968@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001281637390.41451-100000@green.dyndns.org> <3892AB60.85F0B786@jonny.eng.br> <20000129150358.Q31717@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200001292036.PAA35163@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000129135134.C70968@dragon.nuxi.com>
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<<On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:51:34 -0800, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> 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 <stdlib.h>
> 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 <stdlib.h> 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
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