Re: "_" prefix in Windows stdlib calls (was: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03)

Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud -AT- gmail.com>
Mon, 1 Jul 2013 08:41:31 -0500

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> wrote:

a lot of 'normal' c/posix function 'foo' are named _foo on windows for
some reason...


That would be POSIX functions in particular, because (surprise?) Windows is
not POSIX. The C library has some nominally POSIX-like API but don't let
that fool you into thinking it would attempt any "emulation".


Actually snprintf is not posix but (surprise?) C99.

Norbert

Context

[GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03 · Andrzej J. R. Hunt
- Re: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03 · Norbert Thiebaud
  - "_" prefix in Windows stdlib calls (was: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03) · Lionel Elie Mamane
    - Re: "_" prefix in Windows stdlib calls (was: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03) · Norbert Thiebaud
      - Re: "_" prefix in Windows stdlib calls (was: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03) · Tor Lillqvist
        
        Re: "_" prefix in Windows stdlib calls (was: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03) · Norbert Thiebaud
        
        Re: "_" prefix in Windows stdlib calls (was: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03) · Tor Lillqvist
  - Re: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03 · Andrzej J. R. Hunt
    - Re: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03 · Andrzej J. R. Hunt
      - Firebird on Windows / cygwin+msvc (was: Re: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03) · Andrzej J. R. Hunt
        
        Re: Firebird on Windows / cygwin+msvc (was: Re: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03) · Matúš Kukan
        
        Re: Firebird on Windows / cygwin+msvc · Andrzej J. R. Hunt

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