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Article #46Re: Curious about limits
From: Paul Moore
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 10:56
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 10:56
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Peter van der Linden says: > What was the reasoning behind the ANSI C standard specifying > lower limits on the sizes of programs that must > successfully translate? Surely, it's not a matter of what compilers have to provide, as what programs can legitimately assume? Without these statements it would not be possible to write a program which would be guaranteed to work on any standard conforming system. Most of the limits are big enough to *look* like compiler requirements rather than programmer requirements, but consider the 6 significant character limit in external identifiers. If you, as a programmer, ignore this limit, your program is not conforming, and may not be portable to all conforming implementations. Gustav. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Moore (pmoore@cix.compulink.co.uk) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority" ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!cix.compulink.co.uk!pmoore Newsgroups: comp.std.c From: pmoore@cix.compulink.co.uk (Paul Moore) Subject: Re: Curious about limits Reply-To: pmoore@cix.compulink.co.uk Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 10:56:00 +0000 Message-ID: <memo.721027@cix.compulink.co.uk> Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk Lines: 25