Re: linked list

Ryan Molden <> writes:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:26:58 +0100, Richard Heathfield
> <> wrote:
>
> >I guess you could always check the Rationale:
> >
> >http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/d11.html#4-11-2-4
>
> Thank you much, will do. I noticed this is the rationale for C89,
> am I to take it the idea behind most standard lib functions and such
> as discussed here has not changed in C99?

There are few, if any, incompatible changes from the C89 library
to the C99 library. strncpy() in particular has not changed.

> I know they no longer do the rationale.

I must be hallucinating then.
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf
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Ben Pfaff

On 23 Jun 2003 22:15:44 -0700, Ben Pfaff <> wrote:

>I must be hallucinating then.
> http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf

Wow, thanks, I had heard from a source I previously held to be
reliable that they had stopped doing the rationale, but I see now he
was a lying sack of s&*t




Ryan Molden


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University Of Washington

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

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On 23 Jun 2003 22:15:44 -0700, Ben Pfaff <> wrote:

> Ryan Molden <> writes:
> > [snip] am I to take it the [rationale] has not changed in C99? [snip]
> > I know they no longer do the rationale.
>
> I must be hallucinating then.
> http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf

Or n937, the latest AFAICT.

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