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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Shared Lib Question (ISC)
Message-ID: <1991May10.192648.3147@Think.COM>
Date: 10 May 91 19:26:48 GMT
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In article <19255@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>  Name a single library function
>which cannot be implemented well without global variables.

Malloc() needs a global variable that points to the arena.

Stdio uses the global variables stdin, stdout, and stderr.

Errno is a global variable, and some library routines set it.
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