Re: better atoi

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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 12/02/2017 17:44, Malcolm McLean wrote:
[...]
>> It's useful to have a copy for reference however. Like the
>> dictionary, 99% of it you probably won't read, but still needs to be
>> there.
>
> Yes, so that most compilers can ignore it! Apparently:
>
>    int;
>
> is illegal according to the grammar. Yes out of six compilers I tried, 
> three don't consider that an error, while one just gives a warning.

So four out of the six compilers you tried correctly diagosed the error
(a warning is a valid diagnostic for a syntax error or constraint
violation).  The other two probably are not conforming by default, but
such compilers commonly can be made conforming with appropriate options.

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  Re: better atoi Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-02-10 14:48 -0700
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      Re: better atoi Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-02-10 22:36 -0700
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      Re: better atoi Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-02-10 21:59 -0700
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                Re: better atoi Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-02-12 02:16 +0000
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                Re: better atoi jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-02-12 08:44 -0800
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                Re: better atoi Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-02-12 09:44 -0800
                Re: better atoi BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-02-12 18:32 +0000
                Re: better atoi Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-02-12 18:56 +0000
                Re: better atoi BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-02-12 19:18 +0000
                Re: better atoi Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-02-13 00:16 +0000
                Re: better atoi BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-02-13 01:56 +0000
                Re: better atoi Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-02-13 10:44 +0000
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                Re: better atoi Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-02-12 11:15 -0800
                Re: better atoi BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-02-12 19:25 +0000
                Re: better atoi Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-02-12 11:54 -0800
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    Re: better atoi Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-02-10 15:16 -0800
      Re: better atoi Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-02-10 22:01 -0700
        Re: better atoi Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-02-11 01:30 -0800
      Re: better atoi Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-02-10 22:26 -0700
    Re: better atoi Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> - 2017-02-11 00:26 +0000
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