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muttaa
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#1: Apr 4 '06
do we have any means to view the actual source-code for a standard
function in C...??


Robert Gamble
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#2: Apr 4 '06

re: source-code viewer


muttaa wrote:[color=blue]
> do we have any means to view the actual source-code for a standard
> function in C...??[/color]

Only if your implementation provides you access to the standard library
source code.

Robert Gamble

Walter Roberson
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#3: Apr 4 '06

re: source-code viewer


In article <1144175915.364076.165820@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
muttaa <asgosa.eeegct@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>do we have any means to view the actual source-code for a standard
>function in C...??[/color]

Not in the general case.

The standard functions in C need not be written in C -- and some
of them *cannot* be written in C on many systems.

There are some "decompilers" which attempt to turn selected compiled
code into C source code... but it isn't uncommon for them to
have difficulty, and the generated C code won't necessarily look very
much like the "actual source-code".
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