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.
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