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Article #6026Re: I can't find a good definition anywhere...
From: Tom Neff
Date: Sun, 14 May 1989 04:33
Date: Sun, 14 May 1989 04:33
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In article <10257@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>No! It is the implementation that I was saying is required to conform
>to the specifications of the Standard whether or not a program contains
>any particular construct (including #pragma). #pragma is not license
>for the implementation to suddenly ignore the constraints of the Standard.
Then there will be no conformant implementations and Doug's interpretation
will be vacuously correct. Every implementation I have encountered where
#pragma is supported has at least one way you can use it to do something
non-ANSI. Is this likely to reverse itself? Compilers have to live in
the real world, including the grungy goal of backward compatibility.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: I can't find a good definition anywhere... Message-ID: <14327@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 14 May 89 04:33:05 GMT References: <1954@trantor.harris-atd.com> <10084@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14324@bfmny0.UUCP> <10257@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 15