Why text=binary mounts

Guy Gascoigne - Piggford ggp@informix.com
Mon Jan 12 20:11:00 GMT 1998


At 10:45 AM 1/9/98 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>Here is one unrelated issue that I would be willing to spend some time on: 
> What is with all the K&R-style functions I see in the GNU C library?  Is 
>there a reason for them not to be ANSI?  I can't believe there are a 
>significant number of non-ANSI compilers still in use for development, 
>maybe I'm wrong...

Actually, this is an area where much of the UNIX world is lagging behind
PCs, K&R is definitely alive and kicking and living on UNIX.  ANSI is there
as well, but by no means dominant. (Now whether this is a side effect of
how much more longevity of code there has been on UNIX when compared with
the PC I don't know).

Guy

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