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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <15529@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Mar 91 21:48:02 GMT
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References: <1991Mar16.195153.15509@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <15490@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Mar20.173511.3904@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Mar20.173511.3904@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Even in the world of UNIX, the compilers generate warnings for
>excessively-suspicious constructs.

Only for outright violations of the language specification,
not for what are now known as strictly conforming programs.