From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/13 Message-ID: <4kpceq$e4b@solutions.solon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 147357553 references: <4knqun$ga1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) reply-to: seebs@solon.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >indicates ANSI/Unix/Xenix/DOS/OS2 compatibility. There are many cases >where the ANSI box is checked and other boxes are not. For instance, >unlink is compatible with all systems but is NOT ANSI, on the other >hand delete, which is the ANSI version, is not available on all systems. delete() is not ANSI. remove() is ANSI. I have never seen a system that didn't offer it, since the 3b1. It's certainly trivial to write. (A good patch for portability is to write standard code, and have a set of conditionally built modules to provide the standard functions in terms of the not-standard but available on all old systems functions.) -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach. C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really! FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.] The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html