On 8/23/17 10:49 AM, dethrophes wrote: > Well technically I don't *have* to accept the performance penalty. > > As I can just use the posix comform syntax, which is quicker.
Wait, which posix-conforming syntax? Because your original example, which had five arguments to `test', is explicitly unspecified: >4 arguments: The results are unspecified. unless you're on an XSI-conformant system. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/