Re: why not use more functionality from the posix standard libc ?
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- Subject: Re: why not use more functionality from the posix standard libc ?
- From: Scott Morgan <blumf@...>
- Date: 2019年5月10日 09:03:52 +0100
On 10/05/2019 04:16, Jim wrote:
> but introducing an extra lib/header dependency by default (readline)
> without using important basic functions (like chdir, rmdir, chmod, ...)
> provided by libc (that gets linked in anyway) seems pretty odd to me.
> especially since the platform can be detected easily.
readline is just for the (optional) stand-alone executable, not the
language itself, which needs to be as portable as possible (i.e. ANSI C
only)
Scott