Escape sequences for printf() defined by SVID

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1974 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>For that matter, what has SVID got to do with the C
>language, and why are they even mentioning this? X3J11 didn't respecify
>the unix calls ;-)

At the time the SVID was being developed, there was no C standard, so
apparently AT&T included some standard libraries as part of the System V
spec.  Otherwise, a system could claim to be compatible with System V even
though its C libraries are incompatible.  Since most programs use more than
just the system calls, specifying just the Unix system calls would be
insufficient to promote a decent amount of portability.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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