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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Non-(sub)-standard C |
| Date | 2015-05-26 11:14 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <cshomcFm3esU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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James Kuyper wrote: > On 05/25/2015 02:08 AM, Ian Collins wrote: >> James Kuyper wrote: >>> On 05/25/2015 12:46 AM, Ian Collins wrote: > .... >>>> So you've never worked in a POSIX environment ... >>> >>> I work in a POSIX environment, and am still constrained, in much of my >>> work, by a coding standard that was written in 1993 that requires me to >>> write C94 (== C90 + 2 TCs) code. I don't remember ever running into any >>> POSIX feature that I needed to use which required or depended upon the >>> new features added in C99. Could you give an example? >> >> POSIX uses C99 and the types from <stdint.h> are frequently used. > > In the external interfaces? I can't remember ever seeing one whose > interface involved a size-named type. Can you give me some examples? The obvious examples are the network byte ordering functions. They also pop up in other network related functions. >>>> ... or worked on a Unix or >>>> Linux kernel? >>> >>> That's not particularly odd - I think it's safe to assume that most >>> programmers haven't done kernel programming, even among the ones who >>> work on Unix-like systems. >> >> But they are likely to have at least seen some code... > > I've been working on unix-like systems on-and-off since 1979, and > continuously since 1996, and I don't think I've ever had any need to > look at kernel code. If I did have a need, I wasn't aware of that need, > so I've never actually seen any. In my case, it's either been modifying drivers or tracking bugs. I'm surprised someone who has been working on Unix-like systems for so long hasn't been tempted to fix the occasional bug! -- Ian Collins
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Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2015-05-21 19:39 +0000
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Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-23 13:37 -0500
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Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-24 10:10 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C wpihughes@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 12:53 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 13:05 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 09:01 -0700
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Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-26 11:40 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-27 10:28 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-27 11:13 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-28 12:20 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-28 12:26 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 10:12 -0700
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Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-24 14:03 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-24 22:09 +0100
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-25 16:46 +1200
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 00:55 -0400
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-25 18:08 +1200
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-25 10:58 +0100
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 09:12 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 18:40 -0400
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-26 11:14 +1200
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2015-05-25 19:01 -0700
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 22:03 -0400
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-25 10:40 +0100
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-25 22:50 +1200
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-25 12:42 +0200
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-25 19:00 -0400
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-26 08:43 +0200
Re: Non-(sub)-standard C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 09:07 -0700
Non-(sub)-standard C Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-05-20 19:27 -0700
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