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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Thoughts on `const' parameters
Message-ID: <965@vsi.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 88 18:25:32 GMT
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In article <957@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
< P.S. - did anybody consider putting `index' and `rindex' into the standard?

In article <9027@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
< Not for very long.  They have been obsolete since 1980, although
< systems based on obsolete C technology (such as 4BSD) continue to
< provide them.  Use strchr() and strrchr() instead.

OK, does BSD have strchr() and strrchr()?  Which versions of BSD?

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