> rely on libc instead of the raw OS APIs?
The argument here is that on Windows and Mac OS X, the libc library is the ‘raw OS API’ and it hence makes perfect sense to rely on it if you want to support such operating systems.
The argument here is that on Windows and Mac OS X, the libc library is the ‘raw OS API’ and it hence makes perfect sense to rely on it if you want to support such operating systems.
No need to have any dependency on msvcr*.dll or the equivalent for Borland, Intel and other Windows compilers, which are effectively the Windows libc.