Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Questions on X3J11 draft Message-ID: <5477@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 13:48:06 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5477 Posted: Mon Jan 5 13:48:06 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 21:59:52 EST References: <351@danews.ATT.COM> <7441@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 >> ... 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.