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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: emery@grebyn.com (David Emery) Subject: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145429841 references: <31582A63.4BE9@east.thomsoft.com> <4jeel1$erh@tpd.dsccc.com> <4jp388$d56@tpd.dsccc.com> <828445854snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <828445854snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, fred@genesis.demon.co.uk wrote: > ANSI C doesn't define UNIX OS calls so isn't really relevant to your point. > Unix calls are reasonably standardised for C through the likes of POSIX and > X/Open which is natural because C is the core development language for > the platform. > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk > Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com > ----------------------------------------- This is not exactly true. The POSIX.1 standard make extensive use of facilities in the ANSI C standard. Chapter 2 contains a list of library calls of ANSI C "included" in POSIX (e.g. malloc(), while Chapter 8 contains C-specific facilities, that refine the behavior of some ANSI C library routines such as file stream IO. dave