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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Max line length (was Re: progra
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Date: 17 Mar 89 14:52:00 GMT
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#  2.2.4.1  Translation Limits
#     The implementation shall be able to translate and execute at least
#  one program that contains at least one instance of every one of the
#  following limits*:
#
#     ...
#     509 characters in a logical source line
#  ...

#  *An implementation should avoid imposing fixed translation limits
#  wherever possible.


Is that REALLY true? "at least one program" is a loophole larger than
the hole in the Titanic. What if it indeed translated and executed
one particular program by including the text of one specific
program in itself, checking for that program, and then spitting out
a hand coded compiled result?