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Article #5496Re: __STDC__ and non-strictly conforming ANSI C compilers
From: Jerry Schwarz
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 05:57
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 05:57
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In article <9187@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: > >Note that macros such as "near" can be defined (as "__near", for >example) in any non-standard header, as well as under control of >compiler options or a special non-ANSI, backward-compatible >version of the cc command. The constraints against pollution of >the name space by implementations is a great advance in sanity >and should be taken quite seriously. Lets suppose we take the version route. Assume that the only difference between the versions is the treatment of "near". The question that started this topic was whether the non-conforming version should define __STDC__. My answer is yes. I think Doug's answer is no. Does the answer depend on which of the following commands is used to invoke the non-conforming compiler? xcc prog.c cc -extended prog.c cc -Dnear=__near prog.c Jerry Schwarz AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill r
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!ulysses!hector!jss From: jss@hector.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-strictly conforming ANSI C compilers Keywords: ANSI C, __STDC__, near, far, flexnames Message-ID: <11005@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 15 Dec 88 05:57:20 GMT References: <3236@pegasus.ATT.COM> <9167@smoke.BRL.MIL> <12643@bellcore.bellcore.com> <9187@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: jss@hector.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 26