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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ and UNIX Signals.
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.102356.1364@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 20 Aug 90 10:23:56 GMT
References: <1699@dinl.mmc.UUCP>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <1699@dinl.mmc.UUCP> noren@dinl.UUCP (Charles Noren) writes:
> ...
>How reentrant is C++ code? [...]

At least up to Release 2.0, there was no mention whatsoever
in the language specifications that a C++ compiler and run-time system
should be required to provide for reentrancy at all!
(Any changes in Release 2.1?).
C++ is a sequential language, pure and simple.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
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Finland
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