Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:32894 comp.std.c:3767 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!jtc From: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c Subject: Re: Just a minor new twist on free() Message-ID: <2612@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 16 Oct 90 13:40:30 GMT References: <4d5780ad.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Organization: UniFax Communications Inc., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 19 In article pds@lemming.webo.dg.com (Paul D. Smith) writes: >Oh no! Not that! *Never* *ever* *change* the standard libraries which >ship with your compiler! (unless they don't work ;-) Put it in some >local header file please, I don't want to change my nice, working, >ANSI-compliant header files in order to compile your program... At UniFax, we ANSIfy the development environment on all of our development machines. Header files get protoized and missing functions get added to the C library. It is hoped that the vendors will finally get the idea, but until then we feel that maintaining these development environments is worth the effort. --jtc -- J.T. Conklin UniFax Communications Inc. ...!{uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!jtc, jtc@wimsey.bc.ca