On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:05:38AM -0800, Atifa Kheel wrote: Some other comments: > glibc support for standards: > ANSI C(ISO C) > POSIX (Pthreads support) > SYSTEM V > (Eg: > Malloc tunable parameter(mallopt) > Extensions : > Statistics for storage allocation with malloc(mallinfo) > _tolower() and _toupper() supported. If it's an 'extension', then it's not 'standard' and not worth using as a point of comparison. Basically, most of the things you list as "not supported" by BSD are better stated as being GNU-specific extensions that are non-standard and therefore incompatible with the rest of the world. > 19. > Extended Characters > glibc: Supported > BSD libc: No multi-byte character set functions.Breaks building UTF(Unicode) support in libncurses. wide character support is present in 5.0. Kris
Attachment:
pgpY8GmhHg16q.pgp
Description: PGP signature