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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatile: a summary
Message-ID: <8070@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 10 Jun 88 20:04:52 GMT
References: <11837@mimsy.UUCP> <2742@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2742@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>For argument's sake, is this something which could potentially be specified
>in the proposed ANSI C specification?  Does the spec have any notion of
>the existence of "compiler flags," i.e., furnishing information not in the
>source code itself to the compiler at compile time?

No -- every different way of invoking a compiler constitutes a
different implementation from the standards viewpoint.  Some
implementations will be Standard conforming and some will not.