site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 Dear Jens, Right, my copy of H&S is 1991. Shalom, John B. Brown. [jbb@vcn.com] 358 High Street, Buffalo, Wyoming 82834 "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" Mahatma Gandhi "If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied." Rudyard Kipling "A man who does not know the truth is just an idiot but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook." Bertolt Brecht "I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain On May 11, 2010, at 2:45 PM, John B Brown wrote: What you are describing does not appear to be either ANSI or traditional C, unless I misunderstand Harbison and Steele. K&R and ANSI C ran on plenty of operating systems that had no /usr/include directory and didn't even use forward slashes as directory separators, including VMS, CP/M, DOS, MS Windows and the 'classic' Mac OS. So I really don't think you have any ground to claim that the traditional Unix include path is somehow baked into any C standard. In any case, not that it makes any difference to this argument, but it's true that the ISO spec Jamison was quoting from is newer than ANSI C. You might want to invest in a newer copy of H&S. Things have moved on a bit since the original ANSI C standard was ratified in 1989 — C99 has some very useful features, not to mention the (!!nonstandard!!) extensions found in GCC. ;-) _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On 5/11/10 4:00 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: —Jens This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com