Thread: Equivalent of Dos 'copy' in C ?

Originally Posted by brewbuck

Wikipedia:
Suppose my program relies on glib to implement file copies. I want to compile my code to run on FooBox, a platform glib does not support. It seems I'll need to write some new code, rather than use the code I already have. Ergo, non-portable.

I'm not saying that glib (or something else) isn't a good solution, just that introducing a third party library doesn't magically make code portable.

You're still wrong. The fact that architecture x may not be available among the architectures supported just means that the library hasn't been ported to that architecture. Again, that can be said for the c standard library too.
Anyway, if you want to create your own definition of portability, you can do it. It's just that it's different from that of the rest of the world of programmers.

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