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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C
Message-ID: <6571@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 12:15:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 13 12:15:01 1986
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References: <1340@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <1340@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, jon@oddhack.Caltech.Edu (Jon Leech) writes:
> 	i) How long after the standard is put out does it take for
> 		compilers to come out which support it?


Microsoft C v4.0 for the IBM PC family already includes essentially all of
the proposed standard, and future releases are promised to be even closer.
For all practical purposes, I'm using a compiler that conforms to the
standard right now.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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