<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Doug McIlroy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@cs.dartmouth.edu" target="_blank">doug@cs.dartmouth.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1cm" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Because the effects of buffering are not transparent, it would be<br>

wise to make it an optional optimization, not a default.</div></blockquote></div><br>It's not just efficiency, it's also behaving compatibility with other implementations. Or were you going to argue this with e.g. the ANSI C committee too?<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                  <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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