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Re: Support for future safer C standard?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Marc-Andrà LaverdiÃre<ma_laver at ciise dot concordia dot ca>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:09:28 -0800
- Subject: Re: Support for future safer C standard?
- References: <437A6F15.3060501@ciise.concordia.ca>
Marc-Andrà LaverdiÃre wrote:
And they should be standard at some point in the future (I
guess its a matter of months...
No, they shouldn't and won't. That text will be a TR, which
unfortunately cannot be avoided, but it won't be standard.
Those extensions are utterly wrong. Fortunately there is another
working group looking into a better approach.
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