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From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Using sdtlib.h on a Sun system
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Date: 3 Oct 90 13:51:02 GMT
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sy13220@fmrco (Richard J. Niziak) wrote:
>I am fairly new to 'C' and am trying to complie a simple intro 
>program on my Sun 4/370. I use two include headers, stdio.h and stdlib.h
>And when the complie goes through, it cannot find stdlib.h.

subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) replied:
>stdlib.h is an ANSI Cism. You can only use ANSI C if you have an ANSI C
>compiler (such as gcc).

While these two statements of Kartik's are both true, the implication
that you can only use stdlib.h if you have an ANSI 'C' compiler is not.
All POSIX conformant systems provide stdlib.h regardless of whether they
have a common 'C' or ANSI 'C' compiler.
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