Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers
Message-ID: <11762@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 14 Feb 89 18:55:02 GMT
References: <355@sdti.SDTI.COM>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <355@sdti.SDTI.COM> turner@sdti.SDTI.COM (Prescott K. Turner, Jr.) writes:
>In fact, its failure to say more will probably doom the plan to define
>__STDC__ to 2 in future standards.  [Because many programs will write
>#if __STDC__ == 1   and will break if it ever becomes 2.]

The unofficial portions of the Standard do mention the intent to make __STDC__
have the value 2 in the future.  Therefore, I hold the opinion that anyone who
ignores this deserves what they get.  Likewise for anybody who knowingly
depends on a deprecated feature.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint