Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 8 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.