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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? |
| Date | 2012-02-13 12:50 -0800 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <lnwr7qihk3.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org> (permalink) |
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Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> writes:
> On Feb 8, 11:04 pm, Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org> wrote:
>> Walter Banks <wal...@bytecraft.com> writes:
[...]
>> > But if I want to run conformance test suites on a new compiler then
>> > a test suite company can specify that is is using a specific standards
>> > document as the basis of the test suites and the standards organization
>> > is responsible for selling the same document to the test suite vendor
>> > and I and all others who purchase the standards documents. The
>> > difference is the standards documents can all be traced back to a specific
>> > document. For users who need that professionally the fees are very
>> > low cost compared to finding out that a single but important sentence
>> > was different between two copies.
>>
>> Surely a published checksum or PGP signature on the PDF file would serve
>> that purpose.
>
> that wouldn't tell you /what/ had changed
No, it wouldn't. If anything at all has changed, it's not the standard,
and in most cases that's all you need to know.
--
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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Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-02-13 17:27 +0100
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-02-13 12:25 -0500
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Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-13 03:32 -0800
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-04 13:36 +0000
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? Rich Webb <bbew.ar@mapson.nozirev.ten> - 2012-02-02 16:27 -0500
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-02-03 01:48 +0100
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2012-02-03 11:45 -0500
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-02-03 09:27 -0800
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2012-02-03 15:58 -0500
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-02-03 13:06 -0800
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2012-02-04 15:52 -0500
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-04 13:58 -0800
Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-02-05 11:37 +0000
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