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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C compiler validation
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 13:25:55 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4i25p3INNqjd@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <4h1e1n$ld5@due.unit.no> <4hsps6$l11@jukebox.plug-in.com.br>
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- In article <4hsps6$l11@jukebox.plug-in.com.br>,
- Gustavo Augusto Coelho <coelho@plug-in.com.br> wrote:
- >gautemyk@idt.unit.no (Gaute Myklebust) wrote:
- >
- >>I want to verify if a C compiler confirms to the ANSI standard. Does
- >>anyone know of test suites for this purpose ?
- >
- >If a understand correct you want to know if your compiler is a ANSI
- >standard or not ?
- >If i am correct you can find out this looking at the compiler's
- >manual.Simple isn't it :)
-
- That's very funny, but what if you are a compiler developer who is writing the
- compiler _and_ the manual? Does your compiler becomes ANSI just because you
- write so inside the documentation?
-
- How do you know the compiler is in fact ANSI unless you can test it? The
- documentation could be lying, or simply inaccurate.
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