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From: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How ANSI is Apollo's cc 6.7 (SR 10.2)
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Date: 12 Sep 90 04:46:41 GMT
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In article <1810@tuvie> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
>cameron@usage.csd.oz (Cameron Simpson,Uhmmm..???? Who knows) writes:

>Not on 10.2. __STDC__ is defined as 1.
>[host of things that don't work according to ANSI]

So why does the Apollo C compiler define __STDC__ to be 1, thus signaling to
the world "Hey! We're an ANSI C compiler!"  Is this just a sick joke, or the
result of bad testing from the compiler shop, or an honest misunderstanding of
what it means to be ANSI? Or is it just patently broken?