Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!a.cs.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Leo's ANSI C Flame Message-ID: <225800042@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Jul 88 13:22:00 GMT References: <2258@sugar.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:sugar.UUCP:2258:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:225800042:000:626 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald Jul 7 08:22:00 1988 > 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.