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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Naming
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.221425.6430@siia.mv.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 22:14:25 GMT
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karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:

>>[The names in the standard library are also reserved]
>>Remember that you can no longer "roll your own" version of any
>>of these routines.

>You never could.  The rules haven't changed in that respect; only the degree
>of formalism in stating them.

1. Which rules are you speaking of that haven't changed?  I thought
that there weren't any rules before the new ANSI C standard.

2. We've used a number of different versions of malloc of our own
and other's devising.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company(sm)]