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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Re: How ANSI is TC++?
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Date: 26 Oct 90 16:21:47 GMT
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In article <5940044@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> jamiller@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.

Doug McDonald