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Article #2716Re: translation limits
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 04:45
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 04:45
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In article <14287@darkstar.ucsc.edu> daniel@terra.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes: >From reading this section, it does not appear that a strictly conforming >implementation needs to be able to translate and execute any program >whatsoever, except for ``the one.'' Well, there are a lot of requirements in the standard that a conforming implementation must meet; 2.2.4.1 is merely one of them. It was not feasible to require that all conforming implementations be able to translate and execute ALL strictly conforming programs that do not exceed ANY translation limit, which is what we would have liked to specify. Some otherwise reasonable implementations (for example, on 16-bit processors) were deemed unable to make such a guarantee. It is most unlikely that any implementation would be able to handle "the one" implementor-provided program yet not be able to handle programs such as your example.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: translation limits Message-ID: <15780@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 10 Apr 91 04:45:01 GMT References: <14287@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 16