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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: How limited is a strictly conforming program?
Message-ID: <9953@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Mar 89 16:32:21 GMT
References: <12208@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12208@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>S1.7 of the pANS says "A strictly conforming program ... shall not exceed any
>minimum implementation limit".  Does this include the limits in S2.2.4.1?  I
>would think so, but the text refers only to the minimum quality of the
>implementation.

So that does qualify as a "minimum implementation limit", nicht wahr?
See the introduction to 2.2.4.

>Is a program still strictly conforming if it has more than
>509 characters in a string literal?  (And does that figure include the
>trailing null character, or not?)

No, such a program is not strictly conforming.  That's directly derivable
from what you quoted.

I'm not sure what the committee intended the 509-character string literal
limit to include.  From the description in 3.1.4 I'd say that the appended
zero byte isn't part of the 509 count.