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From: karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Types
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 17:15:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 17:15:42 1987
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In article <727@jenny.cl.cam.ac.uk> am@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alan Mycroft) writes:
>My understanding of [Oct86 dpANS] is that a C compiler which treats
>   f() { asm("ret"); }
>as anything other than a call to [an ordinary function named "asm"] is broken
>[Since builtin asm is not part of the standard.]

"Broken" is a bit strong.  Such compilers (which will likely continue to
exist in the ANSI world) will simply be "not strictly conforming".

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint