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Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X

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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 12/ 1/11 10:12 AM, Joshua Maurice wrote:
> > On Nov 30, 7:46 am, Markus Wichmann<nullp...@gmx.net>  wrote:
> >> On 28.11.2011 22:51, Joshua Maurice wrote:
> >>
> >>> First, political. If you call it pthreads, I suspect Microsoft will
> >>> have some additional bias against implementing it. That is bad.
> >>
> >> There's no need for M$ to implement pthreads, as there's already a
> >> wrapper library for Win32, wrapping pthreads around Win32 threads. It's
> >> called pthreads-win32.
> >
> > If we want to add pthreads, or a direct copy-paste of pthreads spec to
> > the C spec, then Microsoft has to implement it, or we bifurcate the
> > language, and I think we can all agree that would be bad, or at best
> > neutral to what we have now. (I argue worse because then they might
> > start ignoring other aspects of the C standard. Gives them precedent,
> > now that they can never be fully conforming.) I suspect there would be
> > political pushback from Microsoft because of the names. If we can
> > avoid that political mess by simply adopting new names, I'm all for
> > that.
> 
> Haven't they already ignored C99?

In totality, perhaps. However, reliance on subsets of C99 is far from
uncommon.

Phil
-- 
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity
-- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), Unix Co-Creator

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Still no dirent.h in C1X David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 04:43 -0800
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-24 09:19 -0500
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-11-25 20:01 +0000
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-26 09:03 +1300
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-25 12:18 -0800
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-26 10:14 +1300
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-25 21:18 +0100
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2011-11-26 13:23 -0600
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-26 23:43 +0100
          Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-12-02 22:26 +0000
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2011-12-02 22:35 +0000
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-12-03 00:51 +0100
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-25 23:54 +0100
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net> - 2011-11-25 20:18 -0500
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-26 07:21 +0000
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kleuske <kleuske@nowhere.net> - 2011-11-26 11:27 +0000
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-11-25 22:25 -0800
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X André Gillibert <MetaEntropy.removeThis@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 01:13 +0100
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-25 12:24 -0800
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-25 20:38 +0000
    Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-26 00:02 +0100
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-26 17:15 +0000
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-26 21:36 +0000
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X "James" <no@spam.invalid> - 2011-11-26 10:31 -0800
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2011-11-26 22:13 -0500
      Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-27 07:45 -0500
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-27 16:52 +0000
          Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-27 12:29 -0500
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-27 18:48 +0000
              Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2011-11-27 16:21 -0500
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2011-11-28 01:57 +0000
              Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-27 20:04 -0500
              Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-11-28 13:51 -0800
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-30 16:46 +0100
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-30 11:19 -0500
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-30 16:51 +0000
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 13:12 -0800
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-01 10:15 +1300
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 13:19 -0800
                Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 04:45 +0200
        Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-27 23:30 +0100
          Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-28 06:42 -0500
            Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-28 15:09 +0100
  Re: Still no dirent.h in C1X blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-25 15:44 -0800

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