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Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2000 08:55:48 -0400
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> Since the C standard definitely requires idempotency for the
> standard headers (except <assert.h>), at least the APE headers
> ought to conform, to ease the burden of importing non-native code.

Yes, and our APE headers do conform.  But ANSI C made a blunder
on this one, I think. They should at least have deprecated the practice.

But for the native environment, we corrected the error and did it right.

Plan 9 is non-standard and proud of it.

-rob