Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: free (NULL) Message-ID: <2613@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 31 May 90 10:45:14 GMT References: <1771@mindlink.UUCP> <36491@think.Think.COM> <1718@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <2507@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1724@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <2574@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1736@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 14 In article <1736@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes: >When I see a C library I expect it to address itself to the precise >problem at hand and nothing more. When I see a C library I expect it to implement the functions defined in the C standard. (Well, not really of course. But maybe someday.) -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin