Re: Curious about limits

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From: Larry Jones
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 16:20

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In article <lf0nn6INNp2m@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
> What was the reasoning behind the ANSI C standard specifying lower 
> limits on the sizes of programs that must successfully translate?

We felt that both programmers and implementors needed some guidance as
to what are "reasonable" translation limits.  Specifying these limits
gives programmers some idea how complex a program can be and still be
portable and also gives implementors some idea how complex a program
they need to be able to translate.  Of course, a really good
implementation won't have any hard-coded limits, just those imposed by
external factors like available memory.
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