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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: terminal designed for C |
| Date | 2012-12-17 12:27 -0800 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <ln7gogifvk.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org> (permalink) |
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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
>> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:
>>> On 10/26/2012 09:30 PM, kerravon wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, October 27, 2012 11:39:28 AM UTC+11, Ian Collins wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>> I would expect a decent contemporary operating system to follow C99...
>>>
>>> Actually, that's not something that's necessarily up to the OS, though
>>> some OS's do make a C compiler one of the standard utilities.
>>>
>>>> In order to do C99, C90 has to be covered as well.
>>>
>>> No, that isn't the case. A C99 compiler need not conform to C90, and
>>> need not even have a option to do so. It may even be impossible to
>>> conform to both simultaneously, though I'd have to think about that for
>>> a while to be sure.
>>
>> Hmm. I think it would be possible for a compiler to conform to both C90
>> and C99, though it would be ugly. [snip elaboration]
>
> Can't be done, because there are programs that are well-defined
> in both languages but have different semantics in the two cases.
I'd be interested in seeing an example.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-22 21:19 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-22 23:34 -0500
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-22 21:56 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Sjouke Burry <s@b> - 2012-10-23 14:42 +0000
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-23 13:06 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-23 15:46 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-23 20:29 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-10-23 21:26 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-24 02:59 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-24 14:15 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-10-24 17:23 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-10-23 18:55 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-23 19:56 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-24 16:10 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-24 20:15 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-10-24 21:13 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-24 21:09 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-10-25 11:29 +0100
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-25 03:51 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-25 08:49 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-25 09:04 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-25 14:11 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-25 17:29 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 03:33 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-10-26 12:35 +0100
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 15:46 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-26 17:11 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 17:27 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-10-27 13:39 +1300
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 18:30 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-26 22:50 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-27 01:42 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-27 19:18 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-17 10:48 -0800
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-17 12:27 -0800
Re: terminal designed for C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-17 15:51 -0500
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-17 13:35 -0800
Re: terminal designed for C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-17 16:48 -0500
Re: terminal designed for C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-17 14:53 -0600
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-17 13:20 -0800
Re: terminal designed for C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-20 10:19 -0800
Re: terminal designed for C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-10-27 02:35 +0100
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 18:58 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-10-27 05:01 +0100
Re: terminal designed for C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-27 00:56 -0500
Re: terminal designed for C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-26 09:03 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-26 11:13 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 15:15 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2012-11-12 18:08 -0500
Re: terminal designed for C falk@rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) - 2012-10-24 17:29 +0000
Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-24 11:55 -0700
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