Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Shrinking with realloc Message-ID: <1989Aug13.003943.28207@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <26328@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1431@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <26362@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <2090@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 00:39:43 GMT In article <2090@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes: >The C library is already very large... Actually not true; it is disgracefully small, which leads to repeated re-invention of the wheel. See my paper "How To Steal Code" in the San Francisco Usenix proceedings for a dozen examples. >... Adding functions shouldn't be done >unless there is a demonstrable significant need. This, however, is definitely true. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu