How ANSI is TC++?

[Walter Bright]

In article <1990Oct26.162147.8767 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
<In article <5940044 at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> jamiller at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Jim Miller) writes:
<>In the area of ANSI compliance in other reviews (I can't remember where)
<>TC++ came out ahead of a number of other C compilers including (*IF* I
<>remember correctly) MS-C 6.0.
<Microsoft is not ANSI compliant. They lack a few of the obscure
<things like locale support. I believe that to date there are no
<ANSI compliant compilers. Microsoft is extremely close.

A lot of people talk about "100% ANSI C compliance". This is impossible,
as it implies there are *no* bugs in the compiler. We all know this
is unattainable (by any known technology!). The best one can say is
it passes so-and-so's test suite, or was validated by such-and-such
outfit.