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| From | Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: is the java compiler written in c |
| Date | 2015-08-21 08:15 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mr6j27$4et$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 20/08/2015 00:12, gdotone@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 4:06:41 PM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote: > >> Finally, I have a counter-question: Why do you care? > > c has many unspecified and undefines, all for the flexibility of the language, so that it can be used to solve many different problems. comp.lang.c is a fascinating read. start: On the one hand, any suggestion that the official C specification is 'tightened up' so that the almost endless 'undefined behaviors' are more rigidly defined is met with howls of protest because of the 'C is so powerful because you can do anything you want with it and that's the way we like it' brigade. On the other hand there is endless droning on about making everything you do as 'portable' as possible which requires an in depth understanding of undefined behavior, despite the fact that the definition of undefined actually equates to 'is unknowable in a particular implementation' etc etc'. If one has the temerity to post c code that does something that is platform specific, or, even worse implementation specific as I have done in the past you are instantly jumped on and reprimanded for a poor understanding of a specification that by its very nature can never be fully understood due to the almost endless undefined things. If you then suggest that it might be time to make certain undefined behavious better defined then ... goto start You might consider this situation a dichotomy where set membership is mutually exclusive. Not so, Some seem to have a foot firmly rooted in both camps possibly due to some rule that determines set membership imported from in a parallel universe. Like I say, it's fascinating read. -- Laughing Spam Fritter
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is the java compiler written in c gdotone@gmail.com - 2015-08-19 12:41 -0700
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-08-19 16:06 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c gdotone@gmail.com - 2015-08-19 16:12 -0700
Re: is the java compiler written in c Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-20 11:08 +0000
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-20 20:34 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-08-20 07:44 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 06:36 -0700
Re: is the java compiler written in c gdotone@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 18:58 -0700
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-20 22:13 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c g g <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-08-20 19:57 -0700
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-21 21:25 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 08:15 +0100
Re: is the java compiler written in c e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-08-21 06:56 -0700
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 15:32 +0100
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-21 16:51 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-21 23:32 +0000
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-21 23:35 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-21 22:39 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-21 22:42 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-22 11:41 +0000
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-22 10:03 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-30 22:03 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-31 01:09 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-09-03 20:46 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-04 10:01 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-22 11:37 +0000
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 12:56 +0100
Re: is the java compiler written in c Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-22 18:04 +0000
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-22 14:27 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-30 22:06 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 10:31 +0100
Re: is the java compiler written in c BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-23 01:31 -0500
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-21 22:42 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-22 11:53 +0000
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 13:11 +0100
Re: is the java compiler written in c Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-22 17:55 +0000
Re: is the java compiler written in c Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 19:59 +0100
Re: is the java compiler written in c Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-26 09:44 -0700
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-30 22:11 -0400
Re: is the java compiler written in c Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-19 19:35 -0400
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