safer ctype? (was GUIs - A modest Proposal)

[Martin v. Loewis]

>   ok... analogy: when using g++ to compile c++ code, would you place
> use of "asm" statements into the same sort of foot-shooting category?

In a slightly different way, yes. There is no way of disabling inline 
assembly in g++, so the analogy is not fully appropriate.

However, IIUC, using inline assembly in glibc (in particular, in header 
files) requires a pure-C replacement version to be written for the case 
inline assembly is not available.

Regards,
Martin