proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)

[Zack Weinberg]

Gabriel Dos Reis said:
> "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@panix.com> writes:
> | When the standard is arguably buggy -- if nothing else, it diverges from C
>
> C++98 came before C99, so who diverged from whom?

It doesn't matter.  The divergence should be resolved in favor of whichever
standard has it right, not whichever came first.  I happen to think that the
C standard, not the C++ standard, has it right, so I argue as I do.

> If you do feel so strongly about this, why don't you invest time in
> sorting this with the committees?

I am not in a position to do that.  Others on this list are.

zw