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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: GCC vs Clang
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:46:35 -0700
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 3:03:58 PM UTC-5, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> The fact that it's possible to create a perverse conforming but
>> useless C implementation, either hosted or freestanding, has no
>> relevance to the question of what's topical in comp.lang.c.
>
> The question of whether dialects beyond ISO C are topical would seem
> relevant, given that the extremely vast majority of embedded programs
> are written in such dialects.

Traditionally discussion of topicality is considered topical, so I agree
with you, but I fail to see how that's relevant to what I said.

-- 
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."
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