Re: Mark Williams C

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From: Norman Diamond
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 02:48

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bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>>#if __STDC__ <= 0       /* Or maybe even __STDC__ != 1 ? */

In article <8465@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:

>No.  Future versions of ANSI C may use 2, 3, etc.  Your code will then
>start to break on newer compilers...

Maybe yes.  Your code will break in newer versions anyway.  Just ask
anyone who has had to revise code to work with a standardization of
existing practice, such as Fortran, Cobol, or C.

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--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net)
  The above opinions are my own.  However, if you're reading this at Waterloo
  or Stanford, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.

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