Re: The isspace(3) man page is badly out of date (newlib)

Greywolf via Cygwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin
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On 2026-08-10 05:54, Jakob Bohm via Cygwin wrote:

> The Pre-ANSI C language had no standard library, but most non-UNIX 
> implementations
> included some subset of the historic UNIX(R) C library headers such as <io.h> 
> etc.
> 

You sure about that?  4.2 / 4.3 BSD UNIX (pre-ansi-C, i.e. K&R v1), while they 
did not have libstdc.a / stdlib.h, they did have quite a bit packed into 
libc.a, which was implicitly given to the linker from the top-level cc command.

Or are you in fact referring to -lstdc and #include <stdlib.h>?
(in which case, I'm sorry for the noise.)

[K&R v1 is still the most elegant language ever to grace the systems.]

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