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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 15:33:03 EDT
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Please note that there are at least TWO types of programs which will be
able to be written once ANSI C is approved and implemented; those which are
ANSI compatible and those which are not.  For companies which REQUIRE all
software to be ANSI compatible (note that the Goverment of the USA will most
likely be one of these types of 'companies') one will be restricted to using
6 character names, even if all machines in the environment to be implemented
can support flexnames.  This is why I personally would have rather seen the
6 character name issue placed somewhere other than in the standard itself.  But
then, perhaps that would have weakened the entire issue to much.  It is a very
real issue for people who intend on writing ANSI C compatible programs.

Note: is there going to be folks developing software which will analyze a
piece of C code to indicate whether or not it conforms to ANSI C?  Is this
a required feature of the ANSI C standard (that the compiler indicate all
deviations from the standard)?  Just curious.
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