From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: What NOT To POST Here!! Date: 7 Apr 1993 18:39:02 GMT
In article <1puv9j1ドルikp@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
|>
[...]
|> But this is twisted.
|>
|> a) I know of 3 different implementations of shared libraries for
|> 386BSD, including one which is essentially a port of the Linux code.
Should I say VERY OLD Linux code? Maybe I have missed something.
|> There is nothing stopping anyone from using them. The only difference
|> here is that the standard release does not include shared libraries.
|>
|> b) It's not clear what you mean by a `better' C library. The 386BSD C
|> library is essentially from Net2. It's roughly POSIX-compliant, for
If you still remember how you made gcc 2.3.3, you will know.
|> whatever that's worth, with compatibility for old BSD programs. Parts
|> of it (like stdio) have been worked on extensively by very bright
I was told someone wishes the part of the stdio in 386bsd had been
implemented like iostream/stdio. For those C++ fans, iostream/stdio
is a winner.
|> people. I have a fair bit of confidence in it.
|>
People working iostrea/stdio are also very bright :-). After having
looked at strtod.c in Net2 more than a year ago, I will say everybody
can make very very stupid mistakes.
H.J.