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Re: Idle: C library features wish-list.

From Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Idle: C library features wish-list.
Date 2022-11-19 06:54 -0800
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BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/2/2022 10:38 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> There are some things that come up often that it might be "useful" if
>>> they could be supported in a more portable ways.
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?...
>>
>> None of these is suitable for inclusion in the ISO C standard.
>
> Possibly.

Definitely.

> This is stuff that comes up a lot, and almost every non-trivial
> program needs to implement a lot of this itself [...]

No, it doesn't.  Some programs do.  Certainly it is not the case
that almost every non-trivial program does.

> Like, say, for example, what if the C library had not provided
> "memcpy()" and similar, [...]

There are obvious differences between memcpy() and the interfaces
you describe.  Those differences explain why memcpy() should be
included in the C standard library, and the described interfaces
should not.

> [...]

Your thoughts are rather scattered.  If you want to make a
serious suggestion, you should focus on exactly what it is you
want to suggest, and talk about that, and nothing else.

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Idle: C library features wish-list. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2022-09-30 16:34 -0500
  Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-10-02 20:38 -0700
    Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2022-10-03 01:14 -0500
      Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2022-10-03 20:40 +0000
        Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-10-03 21:10 +0000
          Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2022-10-03 19:07 -0500
            Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-10-04 13:43 +0000
              Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2022-10-04 15:20 -0500
                Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2022-10-05 03:58 -0500
            Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2022-10-04 16:56 +0000
              Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2022-10-04 18:30 -0500
        Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2022-10-03 18:19 -0500
      Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-11-19 06:54 -0800
    Re: Idle: C library features wish-list. gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2022-10-03 09:29 +0000

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