[Info-vax] CRTL replacement (Re: Status of the PostgreSQL port?)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/30/15 7:02 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 11:04:28 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>
>>
>> Given that we're still begging for the CRTL that DEC started in its
>> heyday but never finished to get to some reasonable state of completion,
>> I'd not be entirely happy to see VSI embarking on an entirely new one.
>
> Can you clarify on what "reasonable" is?

Passing a conformance test would be one good measure. I have not
systematically gone through the C99 or POSIX standards or other library
implementations and made a list of what's missing or doesn't work as
expected in the CRTL. But when a compilation environment (compiler plus
library) claims to be C99 but doesn't provide, fifteen years after the
standard was issued, intmax_t, or the %z specifier to strftime, or other
examples that could be readily multiplied, then it sure looks like no
one else has either.