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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portablity using structures and malloc - Help
Message-ID: <527@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 14:57:38 EDT
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Summary: This is the right place for it


In article <4781@allegra.UUCP> jpl@allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman) writes:
>[referring to portability considerations]
>I suggest that those interested in kicking these issues around move the
>discussion to mod.unix, since there is likely to be a lot of overlap of
>proposed additions [whence the mod] and since the problems are more those
>of UN*X than C [whence the unix].

Permit me to disagree.  These issues are not restricted to UNIX.  Lots
of people use C without having UNIX at all (gasp!).  Access to system
parameters is just as important to them.  Of course, some UNIX parameters
may not have precise counterparts on other systems; but the object should
be to get as much system independence as possible.