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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: Integral conversion e.t.c. (was: Re: Hungarian notation)
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 23:40:59 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: john@sco.com's message of Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:40:29 GMT
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- In article <DM0HFI.GEA@sco.COM> john@sco.com (John R MacMillan)
- writes:
- <snip>
- diagnostics), then I have to disagree, for two reasons. One is that a
- compiler that conforms to the standard is not obliged to catch non-
- conforming programs, so a clean compile does not mean a conforming
- program. The other reason is that a standard compiler is free to
- <snip>
- So even if it compiles clean with my compiler, I can't expect it to do
- so with yours, and I can't even expect that the program is conforming.
-
- That the above two statements cannot be correct follows directly from
- the definition of a conforming program. Probably the words `strictly'
- got omitted: but that is the very crux of this discussion, I felt.
-
- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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