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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:18:51 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc
Message-ID:  <3893D7CB.46554B6F@newsguy.com>
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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> You quote precisely the section which proves my point.
> 
> > Section 4.13.7 General Utilities <stdlib.h>
> 
> >     Function names that begin with {\bf str} and a lowercase letter
> >     (followed by any combination of digits, letters, and underscore) may
> >     be added to the declarations in the <stdlib.h> header.
> 
> Nowhere in this paragraph does it say ``by ANSI/ISO''.  These are
  ^^^^^^^
> identifiers which are prohibited to *users*, not to The
> Implementation.  (This should be obvious: the only way a new such
> identifier would be added to the standard is if it first appears in some
> implementation.)

Nowhere? See:

> Section 4.13 Future Library Directions
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>     The following names are grouped under individual headers for
>     convenience.  All external names described below are reserved no
>     matter what headers are included by the system.

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