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It can, and the people who only check a few well-known open source C library implementations miss that there is quite a range of other C library implementations out there that do this very thing, from P.J. Plauger's through OpenWatcom's and Tru64 Unix's to mine. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300532




I don't know what you mean by that. I pointed out two libcs that do exactly that (that was what I meant by ‘the sensible, simple implementation’; perhaps that wasn't clear enough?) as well as multiple other approaches that also result in correct performance. And the managarm and sortix libcs (for instance) are hardly well known.




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