Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: $1 check for first person who convinces me main can't be reserved
Message-ID: <1988Mar3.185806.1356@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8016@elsie.UUCP> <8020@elsie.UUCP> <7352@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2801@haddock.ISC.COM>, <8025@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 18:58:06 GMT

> ... recent drafts
> do not say that implementers may reserve *only* those identifiers.

If you read section 1.7 very carefully and thoughtfully, you may change
your mind.  Assume your compiler reserves "xyz".  Is a program which is
otherwise "strictly conforming" rendered not so by using "xyz" for its
own purposes?  No.  Is your compiler a "conforming implementation" if it
refuses to compile that program as a result?  No.
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