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Re: C99 conformance bug in gcc-3.1
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com (Alexandre Oliva)
- Cc: fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU (Fergus Henderson),jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk (Joseph S. Myers), velco at fadata dot bg (Momchil Velikov),dot at dotat dot at (Tony Finch), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:35:37 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: C99 conformance bug in gcc-3.1
Alexandre Oliva write:
> But hey!, Standard compliance
> is something we should strive for, so let's try and change the
> Standard :-)
The purpose of standards is to, as much as possible, standardize existing
practice. If it is the case that four of the most common C
implementations all disagree with the standard in the same way, and also
the source of the feature in the first place was these same
implementations, it seems that it was the standards committee that made an
error.