Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c Subject: Re: Why does C standard consider each compiler flag a separate implementation? Message-ID: <8081@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 13 Jun 88 05:34:18 GMT References: <2746@ttrdc.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12 Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:10664 comp.std.c:47 In article <2746@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: >WHY does the proposed standard say this? What would you prefer that it say? I bet you can't word your notion in a form acceptable for use in a standard. The basic problem is that the Standard would have to discuss non-conforming implementations in order to specify which variations in invocation would be conforming, but by its nature the Standard cannot impose requirements on non-conforming implementations. Another problem is that there is no universal way of invoking compilers.