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Article #3547Re: Integral promotion.
From: Thad Smith
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:11
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:11
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In article <4gnbbp$bhu@solutions.solon.com>, jmccarty@spdmail.spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty) wrote: >)Thus, the implementation has to say exactly how it handles this. >)There is still some question as to whether the implementation can >)define it as an overflow resulting in program termination, is there >)not? > >Where in the standard does it say that a compiler must be accompanied by >-any- documentation? >From ANSI Classic 1.6: " Implementation -- a particular set of software, running in a particular translation environment under particular control options, that performs translation of programs for, and supports execution in a particular exectution environment. Implementation-defined behavior -- behavior, for a correct program construct and correct data, that depends on the characteristics of the implementation and that each implementation shall document." If a particular implementation doesn't specify each of the explicit implementation-defined behaviors, it isn't conforming. Thad
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!solon.com!not-for-mail From: thads@csn.net (Thad Smith) Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c.moderated Subject: Re: Integral promotion. Date: 25 Feb 1996 12:11:50 -0600 Organization: T3 Systems Sender: clc@solutions.solon.com Approved: clc@solutions.solon.com Message-ID: <4gq8p6$oqk@solutions.solon.com> References: <4fstj7$2l6@solutions.solon.com> <4fu835$9de@solutions.solon.com> <4fvgrm$dv9@solutions.solon.com> <4g27gn$q5k@solutions.solon.com> Reply-To: ThadSmith@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com