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From: afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: You cannot check ANSI compliance
Message-ID: <16040@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 89 01:14:23 GMT
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One facet of the proposed ANSI standard that is difficult
to verify is re-entrant functions. The proposed ANSI standard
requires that all functions have the possibility of being
re-entrant. This means that the calling convention
must be re-entrant. This applies to functions of any return types.

The various ANSI C compliance test suites cannot check for this
in a deterministic manner.

//// Anthony Scian afscian@violet.uwaterloo.ca afscian@violet.waterloo.edu ////
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