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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: commom malloc/free practice breaks standard - author strikes back
Message-ID: <11412@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 21:54:39 GMT
References: <1989Oct16.111059.3840@anucsd.oz> <416@cpsolv.UUCP> <11380@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1429@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1429@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <11380@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>  Of course. One of the big drawbacks of no machine readable copies for
>anyone except the committee is that only they can do a comprehensive
>search for a topic.

I don't have a machine-readable copy (although I could have had one).
It's not that hard to find out the answer to almost any question, if
you're familiar with the Standard.  The index does help..