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: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Lawrence Kirby Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/07 Message-ID: <828903511snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146262049 x-nntp-posting-host: genesis.demon.co.uk references: x-mail2news-path: genesis.demon.co.uk organization: none reply-to: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes: >"Well, POSIX is IEEE standard 1003. I don't think SPEC1170 and XPG are >national/international standards but are something you have to conform to >if you want to call your OS UNIX(tm). >" > >This is plain wrong! There are lots of unixes out there that call themselves >UNIX and do not conform exactly to SPEC1170. No, they call themselves Unix. They *cannot* call themselves UNIX(tm). >Consider for example, also answering your question about ANSI being >a misleadng guide to portability, the return type of sprintf. I don't >have SPEC1170 on hand, but it is a good guess that it is ANSI compliant >here (return type int), but BSD heritage unices (like SunOS) return >char *. In any ANSI compiler/library sprintf returns int. Tell me of any modern system which doesn't make the correct functionality available in a library, if not the default. These days this is a non-issue with regards to portability (even considering Sun systems). >and prey who enforces this rule? X/Open own the UNIX trademark and have the legal right to enforce it. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------