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Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Tue Mar 29 10:44:54 AEST 1988
> >... such things generally are confined to the bowels of the operating
> >system, where they belong.
>
> And would you mandate that C never be used for writing operating
> systems (one of it's original purposes)? ...
Nobody is saying that the concept is not necessary in certain specialized
situations. The point is that these are a sufficiently small subset of C
applications that the need should addressed with #pragma, rather than by
cluttering up the type system with it. The principal problem with #pragma
is that it is not portable, since its semantics are not standardized, but
the sort of code we're talking about isn't portable anyway.
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