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Article #4506Re: giving a (*)(const void *) to a (*)(void *)
From: Larry Jones
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 21:19
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 21:19
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In article <818901873snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> writes: > In article <4akjpr$jh6@info1.sdrc.com> larry.jones@sdrc.com "Larry Jones" writes: > > >In fact, this point was already brought up in a Defect Report. The > >Committee's response (from memory) was that the footnote was intended as > >very strong guidance to implementers, but was not intended to be > >normative. We expect that market forces will prevent implementers from > >ignoring the footnote without a very good reason. > > This would seem to be the worst of all worlds - implementers are expected > to support this but any program that relies on it is not guaranteed to work. Implementers are encouraged to support it so that pre-ANSI code continues to work under ANSI/ISO conforming implementations. Programmers, on the other hand, are encouraged to write their code correctly rather than relying on backward-compatible hacks. ---- Larry Jones, SDRC, 2000 Eastman Dr., Milford, OH 45150-2789 513-576-2070 larry.jones@sdrc.com When I want an editorial, I'll ASK for it! -- Calvin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sdrc.com!thor!scjones From: scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: giving a (*)(const void *) to a (*)(void *) Date: 18 Dec 1995 21:19:08 GMT Organization: SDRC Engineering Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <4b4lsc$jo3@info1.sdrc.com> References: <Dominique.Marcadet-0712951751160001@marcadet.supelec.fr> <818901873snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.sdrc.com