Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers
Message-ID: <1017@vsi.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 89 02:39:17 GMT
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In article <8470@edsews.EDS.COM>, charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette) writes:
> If we could only get them to drop the __STDC__ if the compiler doesn't conform
> to the full-use standards.

Convincing a vendor to simply drop __STDC__=0 is probably harder than
it looks because it will "break" the code of those who bought the compiler
the first time.  Perhaps a reasonable compromise is to permit __STDC__
to be #undef-ed (on the command line, perhaps) in non-conformant mode.

     Steve

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