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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Leo's ANSI C Flame
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Date: 7 Jul 88 13:22:00 GMT
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> Can ANSI copyright its name and prevent people from advertising 99.44%
> compatibiltiy? I believe that this is done with TeX.
> Shouldn't this discussion be moved to comp.languages.c or some such?

I think you'll find that, when ANSI C becomes real, very, very few people
will actually USE real ANSI C compilers. They use the fixed version
without trigraphs, with some sort of no-alias perversion, and a
few non-standard (i.e. they modify the generated code) pragmas, and
with, probably, a bit of name-space pollution.
Most compilers will require a special command line switch to get
full compatibility with the standard.