Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!petro!swrinde!dpmizar!com50!ems!rosevax!rose3!merlyn From: merlyn@rose3.rosemount.com (Brian Westley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Leo's ANSI C Flame Message-ID: <412@rose3.rosemount.com> Date: 8 Jul 88 16:53:54 GMT References: <8806292138.AA22025@decwrl.dec.com> <6427@well.UUCP> Reply-To: merlyn@rose3.UUCP (Brian Westley) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Rosemount Inc., Burnsville, MN Lines: 19 [ edited for telecommunications ] Leo complains about ANSI C: >[my complaints] are mostly based on second-hand information from a >knowledgeable person who has his ear to comp.lang.c, and who has been >using C since way before it became a chic language: Leo, most of your arguments are full of half-truths, or misinformation. I suggest you learn more about the ANSI C proposal firsthand. Or read comp.lang.c (you would have seen Dennis's reply to the latest proposal, the demise of noalias, how strlen("foo") can be optimized to 3, how to tell C to use your strlen() & not the library's, how ((x+3)+5) can be optimized to (x+8) even though parentheses are respected (using the as-if rule, if your compiler ignores integer overflow), and other goodies) If you simply want to vent your spleen, followups to alt.flame. If you have real ANSI C questions, use comp.lang.c or (better) comp.std.c Merlyn LeRoy