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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
Message-ID: <6441@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 20:35:38 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 20 20:35:38 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <135@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>Ennyhow, dis here group is supposta be about C.  C doesn't have I/O.  
>It just has functions calls; it don't from nowhere about I/O.

Don't be silly.  All non-trivial C programs perform I/O; the
fact that it is done by calling library functions rather than
being built explicitly into the language grammar is irrelevant.

>As for any claim that some C standards discuss irrelevancies like I/O,
>well, there *is* a newsgroup for discussing C standards.

The fact that the forthcoming C standard defines both the
grammar and the library does not mean that all discussion
about the library (or the grammar) belongs in comp.std.c.