From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Please add strrev proposal
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:48:59 +0100
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Hello.

Radical, NetSurfer wrote:
> in my humble opinion, its NONstandard that Libc doesn't already have
> this.  Please name one other C/C++ compiler that also omits it?

libc is not necessarily distributed with the C compiler. DJGPP's libc is
not distributed with the DJGPP port of libc. You need to install djdev to
get DJGPP's libc and then gcc to get the C compiler.

'strrev' does not appear to be present on my RedHat Linux 6.2 box:

iolanthe:~ =] grep strrev `find /usr/include -name '*.h'`
/usr/include/glib.h:void         g_strreverse           (gchar      
*string);

glib.h is from glib.

iolanthe:~ =] rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.1.3-22

glibc is GNU libc, the standard libc on Linuces.

If you're that bothered, you may want to use the g_strreverse() function
from glib - get v2tk/glb1210b.zip from the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET.

I don't see why 'strrev' function should be in DJGPP's libc. It's
non-standard (neither ANSI nor POSIX). You can get an equivalent function
from glib, which is a pretty popular add-on library. If you're that
bothered, why not just include your own implementation in your programs?

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/