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From: avg@diablo.ARPA (Allen VanGelder)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re:   [Really: C builtin functions?]
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Date: Wed, 9-Apr-86 18:32:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  9 18:32:26 1986
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Reply-To: avg@diablo.UUCP (Allen VanGelder)
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I think there may be a confusion in terminology between built-in and
in-line.  In FORTRAN, MAX is expanded in-line, so you always get
FORTRAN's MAX.  But SIN is not, and if you jiggle your libraries
properly you will get your personal SIN function.  The same is true
for READ and WRITE in FORTRAN.

I still call SIN, READ, and WRITE built-in in any language where the
language manual tells how to use them and what they do.