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Re: proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)
- From: rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Ross Ridge <rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca>,Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:37:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)
Ross Ridge wrote:
> Thinking semantically is irrelevent because the question isn't whether GCC
> conforms to C99 or POSIX. It clearly doesn't. GCC fails the as-if rule.
> The question is one of implementation burden, which can only be answered
> by examining GCC's implementation.
Robert Dewar wrote:
> Once again we are not discussing general conformance here, just
> conformance on this specific issue.
Wrong. The question that was asked and I answered was about
implementation burden, not conformance.
Ross Ridge
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