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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers
Message-ID: <8742@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 89 22:37:47 GMT
References: <358@masscomp.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <358@masscomp.UUCP>, by ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods):
> If I invoke a conforming compiler with "cc -DFOO", but my program
> has #ifdef __STDC__ in it, how does this break conformance?

If "cc -DFOO" has the effect of providing of predefining FOO, then it
does not provide a conforming compilation environment: the program's
name space has been polluted.  So I assume that __STDC__ will not be
defined in such cases.  Do you think this should be an exception?  If
so, do you have any other exceptions in mind?
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