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From: jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Shouldn't ANSI have provided nonvolatile instead of volatile?
Message-ID: <680016@hpmwjaa.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 15:44:58 GMT
References: <1117.18:37:35@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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>                                 The few things that *were* X3J11 inventions
> are among the worst botches in the standard.

I couldn't agree more.  ANSI C should codify existing practice, rather than
introduce a new language with subtly different semantics than K&R.

And they should not have mucked with so many include files.  

Thank God they backed down on noalias!  But why did they keep trigraphs?
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