Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers Message-ID: <9696@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 23 Feb 89 14:13:09 GMT References: <355@sdti.SDTI.COM> <11762@haddock.ima.isc.com> <9075@elsie.UUCP> <9710@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <9710@ihlpb.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) writes: >In article <9075@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes: >|#if __STDC__ >= 1 >You don't really want to do this, since the future standard may not be >100% upward compatable with ANSI C 89. It's much more likely that "#if __STDC__ > 0" will be what you want under a future revision of the Standard than that "#if __STDC__ == 1" will be.