I'm not sure about 1), however I'm sure that fopen and the like have
nasty limitations. For exemple you can't access all the windows VFS with
the standard C functions in windows (open and fopen). Harddisks are ok
but findfirst findnext will faill on a network resource for exemple
(\\server\share\resource). I had to port my own stuff from standard C to
the Native API.
On the Mac side of things the standard doesn't let you access resource
forks, only the data fork of the file (legacy files on the mac have two
parts, one containing data and the other containing metadata). Also
there is no such thing as a text path name a la /usr/local/bin/xxx on
the mac and you are supposed to use path and files with FSSpecs and
FSRefs which are opaque types that manage places in the VFS.
There are some stuff you just can't do with fopen on these platform
(another one is mmap'ed IOs...).
1) may still be true ;-).
Sebastien
Paul Davis wrote:
exactly which "standard C language" functions are you thinking ofyou know what I mean. fopen() etc? ANSI C, no?
jeff?
my impression from reading the VST plugins list is that either:
1) there are a lot of rather ignorant programmers out there who simply have never come across these functions.
OR
2) the implementation of these functions in various proprietary operating systems (who would prefer you used their API)
is not particularly good.
i don't know which of these is true, if either. one way or another, i have this impression that win/mac developers don't look favorably upon the "standard C" API. have i got that wrong?
--p
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