[TUHS] : C dialects (was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)

[Dan Cross]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 6:15 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023, Dan Cross wrote:
> > Hey, they dropped `gets` from the standard library! Never say never.
>
> When did that finally happen?  Last I looked, gets() was still part of
> POSIX, and hence couldn't be dropped...

It was (finally!!) dropped from ISO C in C11.

It's a shame POSIX is keeping it around, but it appears you're right:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

In fairness, this does say it may be removed from a later standard.

        - Dan C.

> Trivia: I think it was OpenBSD that nobbled gets() to print a warning
> whenever it was invoked :-)
>
> -- Dave