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Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
I don't know the situation for Fortran 95 users, but my experience is
that C++ users find it quite annoying when other standards hijack
C++ standard headers rather than defining new ones for their
purposes.
Reality (POSIX, et al mucking in C headers) is never as good as fantasy
(neatly and individually-packaged standards). Vendors are equally guilt,
sticking their own "stuff" into standard headers. The whole idea of a
"standard" is portability!
Arrgghh. Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine. Well fed, too. ;)
So, the issue there (in C++ land) is radically different from that in
C land. [First, have C users include standard headers instead of
prototyping "by hand" :-)]
Oh, some of us old C jockeys (I started on the PDP-8) think poorly of
header pollution. By the time C became a standard, every vendor had
their own "thing" going, and this evolved into a lack of respect for
standards integrity.
..Scott
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