Sun 2003-06-22 19:33, Wes Garland (1:106/2000) wrote to Andrew Clarke:

 ac>> Or use getopt.c from Msged, which is portable to anywhere.  GNU 
 ac>> getopt is overkill for small programs.  :-)

 WG> What, there exists a real platform where getopt *doesn't* exist in
 WG> libc? I could swear that it was specified in POSIX 1003.1, but
 WG> don't have my handy-dandy purple book at home right now.  

Yep, getopt(3) in FreeBSD suggests it is POSIX, but of course there are a
number of platforms that provide a vastly incomplete set of POSIX functions
unless you restrict yourself to GNU C.  I try to avoid restricting myself
to any particular compiler unless it's difficult not to.

Did you know MSVC++ 6.0 doesn't provide opendir()?  Amazing.  I wrote my
own to use Win32 API calls though.  :-)

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