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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: casting int constants to pointers (was: switch (expression))
Message-ID: <977@garth.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 88 20:23:57 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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>Neither sbrk() nor shmop() is part of the ANSI C library.  I hope POSIX will
>fix this.

Because ANSI is defining a language, not an operating system.

A Cyber 205 doesn't need sbrk -- refer to a word and it exists, regardless
of its address. And it can't use shmop -- only the site defined shared library
pages can be shared (in read/execute mode).  (Not that 205 is all that great
or VectorC that well known, but it does provide a concrete example.)