Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sfmag.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!sfmag!mjs From: mjs@sfmag.UUCP (M.J.Shannon) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Compiler Error Checking and Error Messages - How much is too much? Message-ID: <697@sfmag.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 10:34:33 EDT Article-I.D.: sfmag.697 Posted: Sun Sep 15 10:34:33 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:53:13 EDT References: <551@scc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Summit, NJ Lines: 16 A comment, if I may: Up until now, C has been an evolving language. With the upcoming standardization of the language by a recognized body (ANSI), compiler writers are less free to impose super-strict interpretation of the intent of the language *unless such is permitted or required by the standard*. This is a *good thing*. It precludes exactly what you're complaining about (except in the case of a machine which does not yet have a conforming compiler). I haven't thought much on what this means to folks writing code to be super portable (i.e., to both ANSI conforming compilers and to older compilers), but I believe there's a suitable common subset that is useable for this purpose. Perhaps discussion of this subset is a good topic for this group? -- Marty Shannon UUCP: ihnp4!attunix!mjs Phone: +1 (201) 522 6063 Disclaimer: I speak for no one.