"_" prefix in Windows stdlib calls (was: [GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03)

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> a lot of 'normal' c/posix function 'foo' are named _foo on windows for
>> some reason...
>>
>
> That would be POSIX functions in particular, because (surprise?) Windows is
> not POSIX. The C library has some nominally POSIX-like API but don't let
> that fool you into thinking it would attempt any "emulation".
>

Actually snprintf is not posix but (surprise?) C99.

Norbert