Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Are there any conformant C compilers? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 07:34:42 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <865yhrpcl9.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <87wnaoghlj.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87sflahhkp.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <87fsh9iz25.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <11d1020d-144d-4da0-88c1-3d56b4160c2an@googlegroups.com> <87pmgdh85z.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <878rn1h5lk.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <9586550c-6a4b-4a75-a10a-25f26e109b85n@googlegroups.com> <87tu5pfm0t.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <38331300-95c3-4499-aa89-062b82974309n@googlegroups.com> <87czccfyq0.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <86mtb5p6gd.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="92872b52a6f682cd3838888a35637fbb"; logging-data="2744000"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18QL1ABghhfXtywJT1bUhF1gB1fbNxgrFw=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lc+CT5gnq4jjmTZnnQjN0znlE04= sha1:hBVmThOxaiYJeAXrMBZTh3YwgzI= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:167671 Bart writes: > On 12/09/2022 05:22, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> Ben Bacarisse writes: >> >>> Thinking about it a bit more, the common factor with all literals is >>> that they represent /anonymous/ values. Without compound literals you >>> could not write a value of any aggregate type, other than char[]. >> >> The key difference is that "constants" are values, and "literals" >> are objects. > > So a literal like 726163 is an object, and not a value? As far as ISO C is concerned, the token '726163' is a constant, not a literal, and is a value rather than an object.