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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <1991Jan07.071104.27489@kithrup.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 07:11:04 GMT
References: <1990Dec27.215842.23685@ivy.uucp> <1990Dec29.040256.21708@clear.com> <1991Jan7.023042.23190@jituha.enet.dec.com>
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In article <1991Jan7.023042.23190@jituha.enet.dec.com> diamond%tkov50.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
>The other compilers mentioned are not ANSI C compilers, 

Uhm... gcc is an ansi compiler.  It takes some special flags to get that,
but that is permitted by ANSI.  (POSIX, on the other hand, is a different
matter... from what I can understand there, cc89 is supposed to get you a
compiler that, by default, conforms to both standards.)

>Extraneous warnings
>are allowed (and are obviously desirable in this case, though should be
>optionable), but choking is not allowed.

gcc didn't choke.  It warned about it, if you request it, which is a Nice
Thing.

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