On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:41:17AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> Hi Steve, but it should, me thinks, imaxdiv() is in posix
> ieee1003.1-2004 and LSB 1.3

>  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/imaxdiv.html
>  http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB.html#AEN3263

Well I agree that it /should/, but it never has, and alpha as an
architecture isn't covered by the LSB.  It should implement POSIX, but OTOH
I have no idea why it was necessary to specify such a function in POSIX, nor
why dash needs to use this instead of the % and / operators.

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