Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Auto-execute code at exit? Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:53:07 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <016d6ddd-a7f6-498f-9fa0-244a5879bb9f@googlegroups.com> <0eb38248-278c-4f56-991f-e572a6b90fdf@googlegroups.com> <8zxXB.214638$9N.106141@fx30.am4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="669e685d4fbb910273bdaef1b49081a4"; logging-data="14730"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/q7KQ2MeVhCAmDpfPJxkU" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C6Ld7fa5f63Sqz8dn6ox3M1iTeM= sha1:PKAW0vMauTmia0C6lyln4Oeqk54= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:124195 bartc writes: > On 11/12/2017 21:13, Keith Thompson wrote: >> Or you can just complain at great length that C doesn't do something >> that you need, but that it was never designed to do. > > Other people have been arguing that C can be effortlessly used from any > other language, simply by knowing the platform ABI and the docs for the > features you need. > > I'm saying that is not the case. I don't recall anyone saying it would be "effortless". I wouldn't expect it to be. A platform ABI can be very helpful, but it doesn't solve all the problems. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"