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[Robert Dewar]

Eric Christopher wrote:
>>
>> Don't you think it is reasonable to fix horrible coding
>> errors like this, you are just asking for maintenance
>> problems. In the short term, kludging may make sense,
>> in the long term it sounds a bad idea to keep such
>> non-portable code around.
> 
> 
> The problem is that it's portable to every other compiler we've
> tested. I am curious what icc and xlc do, but those are the only
> two not tested.

Sorry, I have a different meaning of portable, for me the term is
related to the standard, meaning that standard conforming compilers
are required to process the code correctly.

"Happens to work on (some/most/all) compilers" is not the same
thing at all for me. COmpetent programmers write portable code
by knowing what the standard requires, not by trial and error :-)