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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: AT&T C compilers
Message-ID: <9761@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Mar 89 11:11:14 GMT
References: <569@marob.MASA.COM> <1071@auspex.UUCP> <1109@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1109@wpi.wpi.edu> lfoard@wpi.wpi.edu (Lawrence C Foard) writes:
>Does any one know why AT&T is delaying so much?

AT&T decided to wait until there is a C standard before releasing
a compiler that is claimed to conform to it.  Since the details of
prototypes MIGHT have changed up until the very last minute, this
avoids customers starting to use the new features and then having
the rug pulled from under them when the features had to be changed.

>Standard UNIX C still barfs on things like p=-1 .

No, it doesn't.


P.S.  Obviously I'm not an official AT&T spokesman.