Messages in this thread | | | Date | 10 Jun 1999 19:21:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons) wrote on 09.06.99 in <7jm8sc$lsk@pell.pell.portland.or.us>:
> In article <linux.kernel.7IYJSCT1w-B@khms.westfalen.de>, > Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> wrote: > [time_t and C; library or creeping Pascal?] > > >The above scenario *might* be a conformant freestanding implementation - > >that is, one with minimal library support (float.h, limits.h, stdarg.h, > >and stddef.h, only). It *cannot* be a conformant hosted implementation, > >because it doesn't conform to 4.12.1. > > Cool, so ISO C was designed by Pascal hackers.
The Library Subcommittee Chair was a certain P. J. Plauger. Maybe you've heard that name before?
And would you explain just what the relation to Pascal is? I always thought Pascal as designed by Wirth didn't have any date/time routines at all, and indeed only had a fairly trivial set of library routines at all.
> That's pretty icky.
Care to explain why?
MfG Kai
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