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| 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 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <86a64nc7vi.fsf@linuxsc.com> (permalink) |
| References | <th7ne1$140s1$2@dont-email.me> <86y1txinka.fsf@linuxsc.com> <thdum3$23pod$2@dont-email.me> |
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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