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diamond@jrd.dec.com (Norman Diamond) wrote:
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>I think the answer to Mr. Long's question is:  No one knows.

Thanks for your _informed_ reply, Mr. Diamond. You are correct that this has
nothing to do with the value of the expression and everything to do with the
form of the expression. I am also not concerned with what a sensible compiler
should do. This is comp.STD.c, and we are concerned with the Standard, not what
makes sense. :-)

I would say that the answer to my question is that the example I gave requires
a diagnostic, and a compiler that does not generate one, such as Sun's acc and
the Gnu compiler, is therefore not a conforming implementation. Period. That
may not have been the intention of the committee, but that is how the Standard
is worded, and it has not been corrected in a TC. If we fudge on this point,
why not others?

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Paul Long                               45:29:14N 122:48:09W
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    "Where time or intelligence are lacking, a goto may do the job."
        - M.E. Hopkins, "A Case for the GOTO," 1972.