Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Types Message-ID: <684@haddock.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 17:15:42 EDT Article-I.D.: haddock.684 Posted: Mon Jul 6 17:15:42 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 00:49:02 EDT References: <7264@brl-adm.ARPA> <734@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 10 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