Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: altering __STDC__
Message-ID: <1989Jan23.200628.10932@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 20:06:28 GMT

In article <915@sfmin.UUCP> dfp@attunix.att.com (Dave Prosser) writes:
>On another point, it was stated that __STDC__ cannot be undefined or
>its value be changed.  This is not true.  The behavior of a program that
>attempts such operations is undefined.  (See section 3.8.8.)  No diagnostic
>is required nor is an implementation constrained to ignore the request.

Sigh, "shall" outside a Constraints section strikes again...  I hope any
sensible implementor would opt to produce a diagnostic for this rather
than just letting it slide.

And I sure hope *somebody* proofread the whole draft to make sure that
all the "shall"s that were really supposed to mean "shall" were inside
Constraints sections...
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