On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:40:26AM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:53:20AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: | | > >My view is that C is fine, but it needs a real library and programmers | > >who learn C need to learn to use the real library, with the bare-metal | > >C-library used only by library developers to bootstrap new safe | > >primitives. | > | > So wouldn't the world be a better place if we could all agree on a | > single such library? Or at least, a single API. Like the STL is for C++. | > | | Yes, absolutely, but who is going to do it?
The glibc people? The openbsd people? I recall that for a while if you used gets, the linker would complain. I can't recall what platform this was on. BSDi, maybe? Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]