realloc

[Mark H. Colburn]

In article <DAVIDL.89Mar29091834 at intelob.intel.com> davidl at intelob.intel.com (David Levine) writes:
>The System V Interface Definition (which, despite its many flaws, IS
>an established standard, unlike the pANS which is still only a "draft
>proposed standard") doesn't require this behavior. 

One of the SVID's biggest flaws is that it is NOT a standard: it was never 
balloted and approved by anyone.  It is an interface specification for a 
particular implementation of Unix.  It should be noted that there few 
companies, if any, which have SVID conforming interfaces; even AT&T doen't 
conform to their own interface specification.

The SVID is one of the base documents for some of the P1003 working groups 
because it represents one of the most comprehensive descriptions of Unix 
currently available.  The SVID along with work done by /usr/group provided 
a lot of groundwork for p1003, which IS a standard, and provided some 
impetus for X3J11 which is currently jumping through the final hoops to 
become a standard.

If the SVID were a standard, there would have been no need for P1003.
Unfortunately, there were a couple of hole in the SVID which you could
drive trucks through, hence P1003.


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