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Re: is the java compiler written in c

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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.


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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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