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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: what C needs
Message-ID: <1759@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 88 01:55:36 GMT
References: <8712241909.AA03710@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8712241909.AA03710@decwrl.dec.com> devine@cookie.dec.com 
(Bob Devine) writes:
>  Something I wish that the committee *had* turned there attention
>to is the memory layout of members inside a structure.  Pascal
>provides a packed/no-packed approach...

Another interesting thing about Pascal, that ANSI might want to
consider, is the idea of a level 0 (the basic language) and a level 1
(the fancy stuff).  ISO level 0 C would be essentially K&R C plus
function prototypes and a standardized library.  ISO level 1 C would
have all the fancy stuff, such as noalias, string concatenation, token
pasting, parentheses being not rearranged, etc.  Portable code could be
written in level 0, and level 0 compilers would become available much
sooner.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi