Re: Future of C

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Future of C
Date	2018-04-02 09:12 -0700
Organization	None to speak of
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> More to the point, while the C Standard seems to have a curious
> aversion to doing so, it is possible for it to describe how quality
> implementations *should* process a piece of code, without mandating
> that all conforming implementations do so.  I would regard stack
> overflow in this category, in that there is a clear preferred behavior
> [behave in the same fashion as if the stack hadn't overflowed] but
> there is nothing a program could do that wouldn't be conforming,
> except when running the One Program.

The preferred behavior on stack overflow is to "behave in the same
fashion as if the stack hadn't overflowed"?

What??

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Re: Future of C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-03-26 21:02 -0700
  Re: Future of C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-03-27 09:39 +0200
    Re: Future of C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-03-27 07:37 -0700
      Re: Future of C Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-28 11:19 -0700
  Re: Future of C Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-27 00:42 -0700
  Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-03-27 08:52 -0700
    Re: Future of C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-03-30 07:14 -0700
      Re: Future of C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-03-30 17:23 +0200
        Re: Future of C Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-31 02:41 -0700
      Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-03-30 09:45 -0700
        Re: Future of C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-04-02 01:42 -0700
          Re: Future of C Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-04-02 04:53 -0700
          Re: Future of C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-04-02 06:02 -0700
            Re: Future of C Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-04-02 06:57 -0700
            Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-02 09:12 -0700
              Re: Future of C "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-04-02 13:30 -0700
                Re: Future of C Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-04-03 00:59 -0700
              Re: Future of C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-04-02 22:33 +0200
                Re: Future of C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-04-03 01:40 -0700
                Re: Future of C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-04-03 12:47 +0200
              Re: Future of C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-04-03 09:51 -0700
                Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-03 11:23 -0700
                Re: Future of C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-04-03 11:37 -0700
                Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-03 11:46 -0700
                Re: Future of C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-04-03 12:26 -0700
                Re: Future of C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-04-04 01:17 -0700
                Re: Future of C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-04-04 09:45 -0700
          Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-02 09:10 -0700
            Re: Future of C Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-04-02 09:33 -0700
            Re: Future of C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-04-03 01:35 -0700
              Re: Future of C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-04-03 12:50 +0200
                Re: Future of C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2018-04-03 04:01 -0700
              Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-03 09:12 -0700
        Re: Future of C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-04-04 16:17 -0700
          Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-04 17:26 -0700
            Re: Future of C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-04-09 07:30 -0700
              Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-09 08:52 -0700
                Re: Future of C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-04-11 08:21 -0700
                Re: Future of C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-04-11 09:28 -0700
          Re: Future of C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2018-04-05 11:00 -0700

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