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From: bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: C++ opportunities (really C reentrancy bug)
Message-ID: <5051@alice.uUCp>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 13:24:30 EST
Article-I.D.: alice.5051
Posted: Fri Feb 28 13:24:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 17:22:35 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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> Modern C is in fact only partially re-entrant, and the
> standard library is (in many routines) not at all.

Unfortunately the standard C library is hard to fix.

> The only non-re-entrant aspect of C itself is in its handling
> of structures returned from functions.

That is (only) an implementation hack and a bug. The bug is not
in all C/C++ implementations. It deserves no language modification
as a ``fix''.