In <comp.std.c++> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
>
>My comment, again, would be that X3J16 has no business redefining
>how X3J11 routines work.

That is not the intent; the proposal is for required documentation,
not for required reentrancy.

For example, I would have been greatly helped if Microsoft had
documented that fabs() wasn't reentrant (this was version 3.5, I
think).

    -- Dag