Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Small Device C Compiler 3.6.0 released Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:35:47 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <874m8x2b3m.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87y46825no.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87pork1zyk.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87mvmoymg9.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87eg7zzv7e.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87inxay7xp.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <3c9dee3b-2fff-4b07-bf50-613a2d6746a7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="945944de09706c9b4e29b53c9d2efdc2"; logging-data="22052"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19q+naXPpujCPdvkfYhv3JE" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:B21uSpktjpEAfvR+sVnyFtr4lzk= sha1:YDMF3fwqS7lVwcew5PSx0Ls629w= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:89182 Malcolm McLean writes: [...] > Then as Keith points out, it also complicates the notion of scope and a local > variable. (Some C compilers disallow recursion because they don't have > stacks. They pack all locals into a global memory space). [...] Pedantically speaking, those aren't C compilers, since they fail to implement a fundamental feature of the language. Loosely speaking, it's perfectly reasonable to call them "non-conforming C compilers" or "subset C compilers". -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org 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"