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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Query: Implementation with non-zero NULL
Message-ID: <5924@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 31-May-87 03:50:53 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 31 03:50:53 1987
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In article <1217@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu writes:
>Note: I have not yet seen a compiler written to the ANSI spec. Talking
>about porting between ANSI-spec compilers is not a very interesting 
>thing to do, and won't be for a while (five years, maybe?)

I don't know how you come up with "five years".  We're hoping to have
an official standard in considerably less than a year, and many C
compiler vendors will have ANSI-compliant implementations available
almost immediately after that (a few months, perhaps).  So this will
be an important issue in well under two years.