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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some questions about ANSI C
Message-ID: <901@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 16:52:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.901
Posted: Fri Aug  7 16:52:40 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 06:07:55 EDT
References: <497@houxs.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
Lines: 10
Keywords: underscore Paris standard C declarations

In article <497@houxs.UUCP> daw@houxs.UUCP (D.WOLVERTON) writes:
>4) dpANSI C, as I read it, requires that a conforming hosted implementation
>   contain *no* declarations [for non-ANSI objects, like UNIX functions].
>   Where does the Committee or P1003 (POSIX) plan to put these gypsy 
>   declarations?  Won't this break existing (UNIX application) code?

One solution is to leave them in the standard headers, but enclosed in
"#ifdef __unix_extensions".

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint