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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Questions on X3J11 draft
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 13:48:06 EST
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>> ... It allows almost ANYTHING to be called a conforming compiler ...

Henry Spencer provided a good response to this.  Another point,
though, is that the proposed standard is not as permissive as
has been presented.  Indeed, I know of no existing commercial
C compiler that qualifies as a "conforming ... implementation"
in the X3J11 sense.  All C vendors will have to change their
products, which is another reason why one wants to listen to
the vendors' ideas about what the standard should consist of.