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Article #5637Re: __STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 16:17
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 16:17
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In article <398@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes: >By the same token, the user could specify -D__STDC__ on the command line >to the C compiler. That would not necessarily make the compiler being >used an ANSI C conforming compiler... In fact, this seems like a good way for users on nonconforming implementations that have a lot of so-called "ANSI C" features to avail himself of them. It's his responsibility for limiting his program's use of __STDC__ to access just features the nonconforming implementation actually provides. That's much better than the implementation unconditionally pretending to be something it's not.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers Message-ID: <9454@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 20 Jan 89 16:17:35 GMT References: <9369@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2788@mhres.mh.nl> <9392@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9416@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2797@ficc.uu.net> <9437@smoke.BRL.MIL> <398@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12