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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 27, 2012 16:53 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns by lu_zero
Parent article: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

> ... you must use a really strict subset in order to be reasonably sure your code will build and behave as you expect across different compiler/libstdc++ implementations.

To be fair, this is true of libc too. "Always use glibc" dodges the problem (and not very successfully since glibc has so many obscure, dark corners).


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