At 10:45 PM 3/23/95 GMT, Mike Paivinen wrote:
>Bruce Toback ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>: The inclusion of all the library code is what makes the POSIX program
>: three times larger than the non-POSIX program.
>
>Just to pick a nit, all of the POSIX C library code is *not* in /lib/libc.a.
>Each routine in /lib/libc.a is an interface routine between the program and
>the real POSIX library code in XL.PUB.SYS.  We had to do this because
>shared globals had not been implemented at the time POSIX was first released
>on MPE/iX 4.5.
>
 
but shared globals are now available in 5.0, right?
So why continue burdening us, and our executables, with the additional overhead?
 
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