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[Henry Spencer]

In article <10189 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>Perhaps the marketplace should be encouraged to support this pseudo-standard.
>>If customers refuse to buy compilers with misfeatures, even if the compilers
>>are compliant, correct results can be obtained.
>
>Please get with the program.  The main reason a C standard was developed
>was precisely because of this kind of "every vendor decide for himself"
>approach to implementing C, which made portable programming excessively
>difficult...
>so long as the specification is unambiguous you do your customers no
>favor by deviating from it.  You will probably also lose sales when your
>compiler fails standard conformance tests.

Uh, Doug, he's talking about doing better than mere conformance, not about
deviating from it.  "Quality of implementation", remember?
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