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Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter
Date 2015-07-25 10:05 -0700
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 3:22:13 AM UTC+1, James Kuyper wrote:
>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
>> ...
>> > It's more likely that the tiff reader will be run on a machine
>> > that doesn't support long double ...
>> 
>> How many implementations of C do you know of that fail to conform to the
>> C standard by not supporting long double?
>> 
> Don't know of any modern ones.
> But my parallel compiler I used for my PhD rejected slash slash comments.
> My attitude is that you seldom err by being too conservative.

// comments weren't introduced until C99.  long double was introduced in
C89/C90.  There are plenty of compilers still in use that don't have
full C99 support, but if you're not willing to assume full C90 support,
you can't even assume prototypes.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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Handling numeric types in interpreter luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 19:33 -0700
  Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-07-14 07:31 +0200
  Handling numeric types in interpreter asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-07-14 00:35 -0700
  Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 08:55 -0700
  Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-15 23:18 +0100
    Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-24 00:21 -0700
      Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-24 08:36 -0700
        Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-24 11:04 -0700
          Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-24 12:25 -0700
            Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-24 22:21 -0400
              Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-25 02:28 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-25 15:16 +0100
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-07-25 11:03 -0400
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-25 10:05 -0700
              Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-07-25 12:32 +0000
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-25 06:12 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-25 10:08 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter ais523 <ais523@nethack4.org> - 2015-07-28 17:50 +0000
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-28 11:52 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-28 12:25 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-28 20:52 +0100
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-07-28 23:01 +0200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-28 14:44 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-29 09:43 +1200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-28 23:10 +0000
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-29 12:04 +1200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-07-29 02:39 +0200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-07-29 12:04 +0200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-29 14:58 +0000
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-07-29 14:14 +0200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-29 13:29 +0100
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-29 08:48 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-29 08:45 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-28 16:28 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-07-29 12:02 +0200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-29 08:51 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-07-29 18:35 +0200
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-29 10:47 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-25 15:46 -0500
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-25 14:08 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-25 15:42 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-26 00:31 -0500
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-25 17:48 -0400
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-25 17:31 -0500
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-25 15:57 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-26 01:07 +0100
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-25 17:26 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-07-25 22:25 -0400
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-25 19:04 -0400
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-26 00:23 -0500
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-26 08:24 -0400
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-26 06:36 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-26 16:30 -0500
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-26 15:42 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-26 16:28 -0500
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-26 18:57 -0400
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-26 16:20 -0700
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-25 15:58 -0700
              Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-25 12:56 -0400
                Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-25 14:18 -0700
      Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-24 18:06 +0000
        Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-24 11:16 -0700
          Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-24 23:06 +0000
            Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-24 16:21 -0700
  Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> - 2015-07-15 19:13 -0700
    Re: Handling numeric types in interpreter luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2015-07-23 08:36 -0700

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