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A turning point for GNU libc

A turning point for GNU libc

Posted Mar 29, 2012 20:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: A turning point for GNU libc by mina86
Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc

Agreed... but gets() was in C89, and C99, and is in C++11, and the deprecation warning was present long before C99 or C++11 existed. So we *do* deprecate stuff in ANSI C, but only if it really does suck (like gets()).


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