bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup) (02/28/86)
> Modern C is in fact only partially re-entrant, and the > standard library is (in many routines) not at all. Unfortunately the standard C library is hard to fix. > The only non-re-entrant aspect of C itself is in its handling > of structures returned from functions. That is (only) an implementation hack and a bug. The bug is not in all C/C++ implementations. It deserves no language modification as a ``fix''.