Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Compiler design in C? Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:46:57 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <0915fef9-bb57-48b7-b98a-342f0e5ee39f@googlegroups.com> <0aeb9981-9b6c-48e2-82d0-6a322032fcd1@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="468e487b6e5a4801c5b49cc535d42bc5"; logging-data="31840"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19LiJ6gx5Vq+oPYnii7PHuz" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o/lUpsDDAmUL2cZWvsKxXkjKWMg= sha1:z5JoylHSSFuEqnf5TrjrOJ+sMLQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:96163 jacobnavia writes: > Le 08/11/2016 à 23:57, John Bode a écrit : >> Then how in the *hell* do they explain adding the damned threading library >> and changing the language of the standard to accomodate it? That was a >> *major* enhancement for just supporting legacy code. > > The threading library was based on a product of Mr Plaugher, one of the > members of the committee. There was an outcry from the POSIX people that > have been working on the pthreads standard for ages. The C committee did > not care and published it anyway. I don't recall hearing about such an outcry. Do you have a citation? (Not doubting you, just asking.) -- 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"