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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!ifi.uio.no!enag
  2. From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c
  4. Subject: Re: preprocessing subterfuge
  5. Message-ID: <23302I@erik.naggum.no>
  6. Date: 12 Aug 92 15:13:56 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug7.001510.13418@mri.com> <MJN.92Aug9024600@pseudo.uucp> <1992Aug9.144525.4521@taumet.com> <23277A@erik.naggum.no> <_=2m!3_.gurgle@netcom.com> <bjdA_oLX@twinsun.com>
  8. Organization: Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
  9. Lines: 16
  10.  
  11. Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:
  12. |
  13. |   That's not quite what Naggum asked for.
  14.  
  15. Exactly, and the reason I wouldn't trust any GNU thing about conformance
  16. to standards is the last sentence in the documentation:
  17.  
  18. |    We recommend, rather, that users take advantage of the
  19. |    extensions of GNU C and disregard the limitations of other
  20. |    compilers.
  21.  
  22. The effect of this is that people are locked into using free software.
  23. (Only half a smiley on that one.  Flames to /dev/null.)
  24.  
  25. Best regards,
  26. </Erik>
  27. --
  28. Erik Naggum             |  ISO  8879 SGML     |      +47 295 0313
  29.                         |  ISO 10744 HyTime   |
  30. <erik@naggum.no>        |  ISO 10646 UCS      |      Memento, terrigena.
  31. <enag@ifi.uio.no>       |  ISO  9899 C        |      Memento, vita brevis.
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