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From: lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C standard library
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.194430.18673@webo.dg.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 19:44:30 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.185038.108@cpqhou.uucp>, pipkinsj@cpqhou.uucp (Jeff Pipkins @Adv Dev@SE hou ) writes:
|> I'm looking for an ANSI C implementation of the ANSI C standard library.
|> I'd settle for a K&R C implementation of anything close.  Most available
|> libraries I've seen are about 40% to 60% ASM lang, but I need C.
|> 
|> Can anybody tell me about a good source for this sort of thing?
|> 

It can not be done!  The reason that many of these things are in
the ANSI library is that they can not ve written in portable C.
If there is a library that is 60% ANSI conforming C, you are doing
very well.

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