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From: eric@chronon.UUCP (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: structured assembler (BASIC)  [Really: C builtin functions?]
Message-ID: <202@chronon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 18:35:19 EST
Article-I.D.: chronon.202
Posted: Tue Apr  8 18:35:19 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Apr-86 20:54:26 EST
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Organization: Chronon Computer Corp., Mtn. View, CA
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Keywords: BASIC, C
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In article <824@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <41@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP writes:
>>C, LISP, Pascal, BASIC, etc., all have standard built-in functions.
>
>C has standard built-in functions????
>
>Gee, that's a new one on me.  EVERY function called from C is an external func-
>tion, or at least it was when C began.  This includes things like write(),
>read(), printf(), math functions, etc.  There's no such thing as, for example,
>a C builtin equivalent to the FORTRAN MAX() or the Basic INPUT which does the
>right thing no what the arguments' types are, or where the returned result is
>stored.

Well, how about sizeof(foo)?

It looks like a function invocation, and is known and understood
by the compiler...

All right, all right, K & R calls it an "operator", but none of
us here are known to pick nits, are we??	:-)

-- 
Eric Black   "Garbage In, Gospel Out"
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