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In article <41k6vv$ecd@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> clive@stdc.demon.co.uk (Clive D.W. Feather) writes:
>>>>>    cc .... -Dgets=DONT_USE_GETS
>> You have missed the point. The Standard does not allow you to hide
>> gets in this way, as Dan points out.
> The standard is powerless to prevent it, because the form of expression
> in question is not written in C.  It's a Bourne shell, command!

In the original context, it was clear that this is another way of
inserting

    #define gets DONT_USE_GETS

at the start of the program. To this extent it is within the remit of
the Standard.

> The standard _doesn't_ say it is forbidden to do this,

It says that undefined behaviour results. Note that "not allow" is not
the same as "forbid".

> My claim is
[...]
true as far as it goes. So long as you remember:
> -- on THOSE implementations AT THE MOMENT (they could change tomorrow)

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